Join Professor Lea Jacobs (Communication Arts and Film) on December 2 at 5:30p for her talk, 'Towards a History of Taste: American Film in the 1920s' at the Chazen Museum of Art, Room L140 (Elvehjem Building). Her lecture is part of the Distinguished Lecture Series and the Focus on Humanities events.
There will also be a 'Humanities Happy Hour' before the lecture at the University Club with a cash bar from 4:30-5:30p.
The Hollywood cinema is often said to have altered in the decade following World War I. The lecture describes a decisive shift in taste that was manifested in critical discourse, in filmmaking technique and narrative.
It will contrast what came to be identified as sophisticated taste, films deemed on the edge of what censors or more conservative viewers would tolerate, with naïve taste, films dismissed as cloying, overly melodramatic, or simply old fashioned.