Recommended Viewing Lists

Alright, so here are my recommended lists for musicals, comedies, horror, and sci fi. We are in the final week of the course here, so we are currently watching the fantastic 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  We talked at length about how sci fi is often used to forward a specific ideology and how Invasion is a great example of Red Scare paranoia from the 1950s. I can't decide if we will watch the apartheid allegory, District 9, or the war fever satire, Starship Troopers. Very different films but both excellent examples of using sci fi to promote a very specific political and/or social ideology.

Musicals
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy 1933)
Top Hat (Sandrich 1935)
An American In Paris (Minnelli 1951)
Singin’ In The Rain (Donen 1952)
Kiss Me Kate (Sidney 1953)
A Star Is Born (Cukor 1954)
White Christmas (Curtiz 1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Donen 1954)
Mary Poppins (Stevenson 1954)
Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz 1955)
Oklahoma (Zinnemann 1955)
The King and I (Lang 1956)
West Side Story (Wise 1961)
The Sound of Music (Wise 1965)
Cabaret (Fosse 1972)
Grease (Kleiser 1978)
Everybody Says I Love You (Allen 1996)
Chicago (Marshall 2002)
The Phantom of the Opera (Schumacher 2005)
Nine (Marshall 2009)
Rock of Ages (Shankman 2012)

Comedy
The General (Keaton 1926)
Duck Soup (McCarey 1933)
It Happened One Night (Capra 1934)
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks 1938)
Ball of Fire (Hawks 1941)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder 1959)
The Apartment (Wilder 1960)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer 1963)
MASH (Altman 1970)
Blazing Saddles (Brooks 1974)
Young Frankenstein (Brooks 1974)
Fun With Dick and Jane (Kotcheff 1977)
Airplane (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker 1980)
The Blues Brothers (Landis 1980)
Mr. Mom (Dragoti 1983)
Raising Arizona (Coen 1987)
Hollywood Shuffle (Townsend 1987)
When Harry Met Sally (Reiner 1989)
Liar, Liar (Shadyac 1997)
The Big Lebowski (Coen 1998)
Stuck On You (Farrelly, Farrelly 2003)
Step Brothers (McKay 2008)

Horror
Frankenstein (Whale 1931)
Dracula (Browning 1931)
The Mummy (Freund 1932)
The Wolfman (Waggner 1941)
House of Wax (DeToth 1953)
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Psycho (Hitchcock 1960)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero 1968)
Halloween (Carpenter 1978)
The Shining (Kubrick 1980)
Evil Dead (Raimi 1981)
The Thing (Carpenter 1982)
Poltergeist (Hooper 1982)
Friday the 13^th (Cunningham 1983)
Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven 1984)
The Lady in White (LaLoggia 1988)
Seven (Fincher 1995)
Scream (Craven 1996)
The Ring (Verbinski 2002)
Saw (Wan 2004)

Sci Fi
The Invisible Man (Whale 1933)
War of the Worlds (Haskin 1953)
Them! (Douglas 1954)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox 1956)
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner 1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick 1968)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg 1977)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wise 1979)
Alien (Scott 1979)
Blade Runner (Scott 1982)
The Terminator (Cameron1984)
Dune (Lynch 1984)
Brazil (Gilliam 1985)
Aliens (Cameron 1986)
Gattaca (Niccol 1997)
The Matrix (Wachowski, Wachowski 1999)
Minority Report (Spielberg 2002)
Serenity (Whedon 2005)
Wall-E (Stanton 2008)
Source Code (Jones 2011)
Looper (Johnson 2012)