American Cinema Of The 1960s

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813544717

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American Cinema of the 1960s by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the Vietnam War divided Americans. Civil rights, women's liberation, and gay rights further emerged as significant social issues. Free love was celebrated even as the decade was marked by assassinations, mass murders, and social unrest. At the same time, American cinema underwent radical change as well. The studio system crumbled, and the Production Code was replaced by a new ratings system. Among the challenges faced by the film industry was the dawning shift in theatrical exhibition from urban centers to surburban multiplexes, an increase in runaway productions, the rise of independent producers, and competition from both television and foreign art films. Hollywood movies became more cynical, violent, and sexually explicit, reflecting the changing values of the time. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1960s examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent and experimental films. Among the films discussed are Elmer Gantry, The Apartment, West Side Story, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, and Easy Rider.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813542195

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American Cinema of the 1960s by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

This book examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and the independent and experimental films.

Author : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813552293

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New Constellations by Pamela Robertson Wojcik Pdf

American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish musicals, but became flummoxed as new aesthetics and modes of production emerged, and low-budget youth pictures like Easy Rider became commercial hits. New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s tells the story of the final glory days of the studio system and changing conceptions of stardom, considering such Hollywood icons as Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman alongside such hallmarks of youth culture as Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. Others, like Sidney Poitier and Peter Sellers, took advantage of the developing independent and international film markets to craft truly groundbreaking screen personae. And some were simply “famous for being famous,” with celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Edie Sedgwick paving the way for today’s reality stars.

Author : Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118475126

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American Film History by Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon Pdf

From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future, Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others. Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium

Author : Paul Monaco
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520238046

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The Sixties by Paul Monaco Pdf

This book covers the 1960's as part of the definitive history of American cinema from its emergence in the 1800s to the present day.

Author : John Belton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0071326170

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American Cinema/American Culture by John Belton Pdf

American Cinema/American Culture looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2011. It begins with an examination of the basic narrative and stylistic features of classical Hollywood cinema. It then studies the genres of silent melodrama, the musical, American comedy, the war/combat film, film noir, the western, and the horror and science fiction film, investigating the way in which movies shape and are shaped by the larger cultural concerns of the nation as a whole. The book concludes with a discussion of post World War II Hollywood, giving separate chapter coverage to the effects of the Cold War, 3D, television, the counterculture of the 1960s, directors from the film school generation, and the cultural concerns of Hollywood from the 1970s through 2011. Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses, this text provides a cultural overview of the phenomenon of the American movie-going experience. An updated study guide is also available for American Cinema/American Culture. Written by Ed Sikov, this guide introduces each topic with an explanatory overview written in more informal language, suggests screenings and readings, and offers self-tests.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : LCCN:90048617

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History of the American Cinema: The sixties: 1960-1969 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813540238

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American Cinema of the 1970s by Lester D. Friedman Pdf

A smug glance at the seventies—the so-called "Me Decade"—unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics—all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. The contributors to this volume look beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Bringing together ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1970s examines the range of films that marked the decade, including Jaws, Rocky, Love Story, Shaft, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Deliverance, The Exorcist, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Apocalypse Now.

Author : Ina Rae Hark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813543031

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American Cinema of the 1930s by Ina Rae Hark Pdf

Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called "Hollywood's Greatest Year," films like Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and remain American icons today. The "mature oligopoly" that was the studio system had not only weathered the Depression and become part of mainstream culture through the establishment and enforcement of the Production Code, it was a well-oiled, vertically integrated industrial powerhouse. The ten original essays in American Cinema of the 1930s focus on sixty diverse films of the decade, including Dracula, The Public Enemy, Trouble in Paradise, 42nd Street, King Kong, Imitation of Life, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Swing Time, Angels with Dirty Faces, Nothing Sacred, Jezebel, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Stagecoach .

Author : Alexander Horwath,Thomas Elsaesser,Noel King
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053566312

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The Last Great American Picture Show by Alexander Horwath,Thomas Elsaesser,Noel King Pdf

This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.

Author : Eugenia Paulicelli,Drake Stutesman,Louise Wallenberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253026415

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Film, Fashion, and the 1960s by Eugenia Paulicelli,Drake Stutesman,Louise Wallenberg Pdf

A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day's Night to Breakfast at Tiffany's, from the works of Ingmar Bergman to Blake Edwards, the groundbreaking cinema of the 1960s often used fashion as the ultimate expression for urbanity, youth, and political (un)awareness. Crumbling hierarchies brought together previously separate cultural domains, and these blurred boundaries could be seen in unisex fashions and roles played out on the silver screen. As this volume amply demonstrates, fashion in films from Italy, France, England, Sweden, India, and the United States helped portray the rapidly changing faces of this cultural avant-gardism. This blending of fashion and film ultimately created a new aesthetic that continues to influence the fashion and media of today.

Author : Deborah Barker,Kathryn McKee
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337241

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American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary by Deborah Barker,Kathryn McKee Pdf

"Placing the New Southern Studies in conversation with film studies, this book is simply the best edited collection available on film and the U.S. South.---Grace Hale. University of Virginia --

Author : Maya Montañez Smukler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813587479

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Liberating Hollywood by Maya Montañez Smukler Pdf

Feminist reform comes to Hollywood -- 1970s cultures of production: studio, art house, and exploitation -- New women: women directors and the 1970s new woman film -- Radicalizing the directors guild of america -- Desperately seeking the eighties: 1970s perseverance turns to 1980s progress

Author : Linda Williams,Michael Hammond
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780335228430

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Contemporary American Cinema by Linda Williams,Michael Hammond Pdf

“One of the rare collections I would recommend for use in undergraduate teaching – the chapters are lucid without being oversimplified and the contributors are adept at analyzing the key industrial, technological and ideological features of contemporary U.S. cinema.” Diane Negra, University of East Anglia, UK. “Contemporary American Cinema offers a fresh and sometimes revisionist look at developments in the American film industry from the 1960s to the present … Readers will find it lively and provocative.” Chuck Maland, University of Tennessee, USA. “Contemporary American Cinema is the book on the subject that undergraduate classes have been waiting for … Comprehensive, detailed, and intelligently organized [and] written in accessible and compelling prose … Contemporary American Cinema will be embraced by instructors and students alike.” Charlie Keil, Director, Cinema Studies Program, University of Toronto, Canada. “Contemporary American Cinema usefully gathers together a range of materials that provide a valuable resource for students and scholars. It is also a pleasure to read.” Hilary Radner, University of Otago, New Zealand. “Contemporary American Cinema deepens our knowledge of American cinema since the 1960s. … This is an important collection that will be widely used in university classrooms.” Lee Grieveson, University College London, UK. “Contemporary American Cinema is a clear-sighted and tremendously readable anthology, mapping the terrain of post-sixties US cinema with breadth and critical verve.” Paul Grainge, University of Nottingham, UK. “This collection of freshly written essays by leading specialists in the field will most likely be one of the most important works of reference for students and film scholars for years to come.” Liv Hausken, University of Oslo, Norway. Contemporary American Cinema is the first comprehensive introduction to American cinema since 1960. The book is unique in its treatment of both Hollywood, alternative and non-mainstream cinema. Critical essays from leading film scholars are supplemented by boxed profiles of key directors, producers and actors; key films and key genres; and statistics from the cinema industry. Illustrated in colour and black and white with film stills, posters and production images, the book has two tables of contents allowing students to use the book chronologically, decade-by-decade, or thematically by subject. Designed especially for courses in cinema studies and film studies, cultural studies and American studies, Contemporary American Cinema features a glossary of key terms, fully referenced resources and suggestions for further reading, questions for class discussion, and a comprehensive filmography. Individual chapters include: The decline of the studio system The rise of American new wave cinema The history of the blockbuster The parallel histories of independent and underground film Black cinema from blaxploitation to the 1990s Changing audiences The effects of new technology Comprehensive overview of US documentary from 1960 to the present Contributors include: Stephen Prince, Steve Neale, Susan Jeffords,Yvonne Tasker, Barbara Klinger, Jim Hillier, Peter Kramer, Mark Shiel,Sheldon Hall, Eithne Quinn, Michele Aaron, Jonathan Munby.

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137562500

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Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s by Wheeler Winston Dixon Pdf

Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.