Please Note: This is a virtual program via Zoom. Participants will receive a link to the program via email once they have registered.  Registration closes at 6:00 PM on Thursday, July 8, 2021. 

Hollywood is an industry that has always depended on blockbusters, beginning with The Birth of a Nation and continuing with epics like Gone with the Wind, The Ten Commandments, and The Sound of Music. But beginning in 1974, two young filmmakers, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, would together change the way the movie industry made movies. 

Spielberg’s Jaws and Lucas’ Star Wars (neither of which was predicted to be a hit) helped launch the careers of the most influential directors of our time. Whether they were making films together (like Indiana Jones) or  separately (E.T., Jurassic Park, The Empire Strikes Back), they introduced the age of  the “modern blockbuster,” which featured elaborate special effects and thrilling  spectacle. 

Grab some popcorn and join Fordham University professor, Brian Rose, for a look at Speilberg and Lucas’ four decades of filmmaking and discuss how they changed the movies. 

Free! Registration Required

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