Students will study ways in which Steven Spielberg has drawn upon both the nostalgic traditions of Classic Hollywood and the anxieties of 1970s New Hollywood, creating in the process a mode of commercial filmmaking that fully transformed the film industry. Students will study and contextualize blockbusters like Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark, alongside later, more personal and ambivalent Spielberg films like A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and The Fabelmans.