Thu Feb 2nd 7:00pm – Thu Mar 9th 8:30pm
INSTRUCTOR: ELLIOT LAVINETHURSDAYS, FEBRUARY 2–MARCH 9 (EVERY THURSDAY FOR SIX WEEKS)7–8:30 P.M. (EDT)SVAC member: $160; Non-member: $195Ages 16+
The Nuclear Age brought a host of new anxieties to this decade of unparalleled technological advancement. On the silver screen, misgivings about the future spawned a dark cinematic vision in the form of exciting, speculative science fiction films.
In this immersive six-week course, we will consider a choice selection of 1950s sci-fi films that exploited everyday fears in often unexpectedly creative cinematic ways. These films offered 1950s audiences a variety of thrilling scenarios predicated on nuclear nightmares of hostile visitors from alien worlds and radioactively mutated insects, all with the creeping realization that science had finally gone mad. Audiences embraced these strangely exciting pictures, making them among the highest-grossing films of the decade
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