Cole Porter: You’re the Top: Lesson Overview
Overview: Cole Porter was unique among songwriters of his day. Unlike most songwriters during the Jazz Age, he was not Jewish; he came from a privileged background; and even though he wrote a song a...
View ArticleClint Eastwood: An American Icon: Lesson Overview
Overview: Over the past four decades, Clint Eastwood has touched generations of moviegoers as an actor, writer, producer and director. Since the beginning of his career as a contract actor for...
View ArticleBob Dylan: No Direction Home: Lesson Overview
Overview: The Allied victory in World War II and subsequent prosperity in the United States set the background for what was going to be a perfect world. The thousands children born to the returning...
View ArticleBilly Wilder: Film Noir Inventor and Genius: Lesson Overview
Introduction "All movies express social values, or the erosion of these values, through the ways in which they depict both institutions and relations between people. Certain institutions are more...
View ArticleAndy Warhol: Lesson Overview
The AMERICAN MASTERS presentation, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, concludes with the assertion that Pablo Picasso dominated the first half of the 20th century and Andy Warhol dominated the last half....
View ArticleAllen Ginsburg: Poetry and Politics: Lesson Overview
Introduction The American Master’s Series lesson on Allen Ginsberg will consist of three thematic components: (1) the link between art and politics, (2) the Sixties, and (3) poetry and popular music....
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick: Lesson Overview
Introduction In this lesson plan, students compare and contrast the Hollywood film industry of the 30s and 40s with Hollywood today. They conduct research, present it in a creative posterboard project,...
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