Transactions with the World

Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-000-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Brien, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Prologue: A Typical Love Scene

Introduction

Chapter 1. Four Faces of New Hollywood

Chapter 2. Resisting Abstraction

Chapter 3. Rooting In and Lighting Out: New Hollywood and Genre

Chapter 4. Regional Frames

Chapter 5.  Conditions, Technologies and Presence

Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Mr. Meek

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

O'Brien, Adam
Adam O’Brien teaches film studies at the universities of Bristol and Reading. He has published articles on ecocriticism and film in a number of journals, including Film Criticism, Journal of Media Practice, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

Adam O’Brien teaches film studies at the universities of Bristol and Reading. He has published articles on ecocriticism and film in a number of journals, including Film Criticism, Journal of Media Practice, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.