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Colin Shindler – (Social & Film History)
Popular Cambridge tutor at both undergraduate and extra-mural level, an academic expert American and British film and cultural history. Was screenwriter of the movie Buster starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters, producer of Lovejoy starring Ian McShane. Wrote and presented the Archive on Four programme on Sport and the Movies for BBC Radio Four, books: Manchester United Ruined My Life (1998), Manchester City Ruined My Life (2013), George Best & 21 Others (2004), National Service (2-12),Hollywood Goes To War (1979), Hollywood in Crisis (1996), play Rumours (2013), about Private Eye and the Macmillan government at the time of the Profumo Affair, was BBC Radio Drama of the Week. Writer & producer of a 6-part 1989 TV drama Young Charlie Chaplin starring Ian McShane & Twiggy
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"Stimulating, fun & really enjoyable - excellent teacher.""An excellent course, expertly conducted and meticulously prepared. The tutor's presentation and manner encourages positive contributions from a group fully at ease with itself.""This was a very interesting course. Presented in a different way from other film courses at which I have attended. The tutor was very knowledgeable and had done a lot of preparation so as to enrich the course with relevant film clips.
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FULLY BOOKED: SCREEN GODDESSES: FROM GARBO TO STREISAND
In the 1920s they were exotic, by the end of the 1960s they were even Jewish, but they were always beautiful and invariably thin. How accurately did Hollywood films reflect the changing status of women in American society and how far did they influence that change? How was it possible that both Doris Day and Marilyn Monroe
HOLLYWOOD’S VIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY 1914-1980
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomThis course looks at Hollywood movies and extracts from them the history of the times in which they were made. While films such as Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) or On The Waterfront (1954) were overtly political, many Hollywood films offer perhaps unintended insights into American society. These are