The Hollywood Renaissance
Subtitle: revisiting American cinema's most celebrated era
By: edited by Peter Krämer and Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781501337871; 9781501337888; 9781501337901; 9781501337895
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Motion pictures; History
Description: "A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bridging commerce and classification through the American art film: the case of Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) / Justin Wyatt; title: The film editors who invented the Hollywood Renaissance: Ralph Rosenblum, Sam O'Steen, and Dede Allen's Bonnie and Clyde / Warren Buckland; title: "I smell money!" class product, The graduate, and the corporatization of embassy / A.T. McKenna; title: "A triumph of aura over appearance": Barbra Streisand, Funny girl (1968) and the Hollywood Renaissance / Peter Krämer; title: The auteurist special effects film: Kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey (1968) and the "single-generation look" / Julie Turnock; title: "About as brutal, relevant and exploitable as they come": medium cool and political filmmaking / Oliver Gruner; title: From exploitation to legitimacy: Easy rider (1969) and independent cinema's journey into Hollywood / Yannis Tzioumakis; title: Hollywood trade: Midnight cowboy (1969) and underground cinema / Gary Needham; title: Zabriskie point (1970), Michelangelo Antonioni and European directors in Hollywood / Melis Behlil; title: Becoming Hal Ashby: intersectional politics, the "Hollywood Renaissance" and Harold and Maude (1971) / Philip Drake; title: A matter of race and gender: Lady sings the blues (1972) and the Hollywood Renaissance canon / Charlene Regester; title: De Niro and Scorsese: director-actor collaboration in Mean streets (1973) and the Hollywood Renaissance / R. Colin Tait; title: Coppola's The conversation (1974) and Walter Murch's Sound worlds / Frederick Wasser.