Spring 2017 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
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PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)<br />
(WIL) Wilder’s Treasure Trove<br />
Billy Wilder’s work is a treasure trove of flesh and blood individuals,<br />
all wonderfully alive. In his canon of work are fall down laughing<br />
comedies, stinging character studies, social satire, true suspense,<br />
aching romance…the best in life, the sad and the giddy, the ironic<br />
and harrowing all have equal weight in his work. Films such as: The<br />
Apartment, Some Like It Hot, The Fortune Cookie, Witness for the<br />
Prosecution, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Seven Year Itch, Stalag 17,<br />
Sunset Boulevard, just to mention a few. Learning from the great<br />
Ernst Lubitsch, perhaps that is why, years later, more than that of<br />
any of his contemporaries, Billy Wilder’s work stands today as a<br />
portrait of the way people are. In this class, presentations will be<br />
chosen for all to view at home, questions will be formulated by<br />
the presenters in order to discuss in class. It will indeed be a<br />
stellar experience.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
Conversations with Wilder,<br />
by Cameron Crowe (November 1999)<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2017</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 45
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