Symmons The New Hollywood Historical Film

1967-78
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-52930-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies

The New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s is among the most exciting and influential periods in the history of film. This book explores how the new wave of historical films were profoundly shaped by the controversies and concerns of the present.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Symmons, Tom

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: The 'New Wave' and 'Old Hollywood': The Day of the Locust (1975), 'Movies about the Movies' and the Generational Divide

2: 'The Birth of Black Consciousness on the Screen'?: the African American Historical Experience, Blaxploitation, and the Production and Reception of Sounder (1972)

3: 'Having Our Cake and Eating it': The Dirty Dozen (1967), the World War II Combat Film and Vietnam

4: 'Not beautiful in the right way': Star Image, Politics and Romance in The Way We Were (1973)

5: Chapter 5: American Graffiti (1973) and Grease (1978): the 'Fifties' as Myth and Comment

Conclusion

Bibliography

Filmography

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Symmons is a film scholar and has taught film history at Queen Mary University of London, London Metropolitan University and Arcadia University (London).