Youth in Revolt: the Global ‘68

In the late 1960s people rose up to fight against the old power structures and for a more just society, only to be met with limited progress if not retrenchment by the mid 1970s. While much critical attention has been given to the events of May ‘68 in France, youth worldwide rebelled against the system in the late 1960s, and filmmakers across the globe responded in unique ways. 

This course will examine how four different filmmakers from four different countries engaged with youthful and often political revolt in the late sixties. We will travel from a British boarding school to the streets of Chicago, from a historical allegory in Hungary to a metacinematic experiment in Japan as we explore the cinematic global ‘68.

Films:

8/6: IF… (Lindsay Anderson, 1969, 111 min)

8/13: MEDIUM COOL (Haskell Wexler, 1969, 110 min)

8/20: THE CONFRONTATION (Miklós Jancsó, 1969, 80 min)

8/27: THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Nagisa Oshima, 1970, 94 min)

Jordan Sudermann teaches IB Film and various social science courses at Lincoln High School. His interests in film include post-war European art cinema, East Asian cinemas, and queer cinemas. Previous courses at Movie Madness University include Japanese New Wave, Vertigos, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Class size will be limited to 18.

Email us at education@moviemadness.org if you have any questions.