Searching for new frontiers
Subtitle: Hollywood films in the 1960s
By: Rick Worland
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781405192996; 9781405192989
Subjects: Motion pictures; History
Description: "This book offers film students and general readers a survey of popular movies of the 1960s. The author explores the most important modes of filmmaking in times that were at once hopeful, exhilarating, and daunting. The text combines discussion of American social and political history and Hollywood industry changes with analysis of some of the era's most expressive movies" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Post Hollywood and a changing America.; title: Hollywood, Hitchcock, and the postwar era; title: Domestic relations, 1953-1967, Bachelor pads, nervous dads, & marriages on the rocks; title: Negotiating the civil rights movement, To kill a mockingbird; the rise of Sidney Poitier; title: The new Hollywood, Vietnam, and the schism.; title: Art cinema and counter-culture, Dr. Strangelove, A Hard day's night, Blow up, Bonnie and Clyde, Weekend; title: Nowhere to run: One-eyed Jacks, The Man who shot Liberty Valance, A Fistful of dollars, the Wild Bunch; title: The War: From The Longest day to The Green berets; title: Far out: 2001: A Space odyssey and Easy rider.