Camera and action
Subtitle: American film as agent of social change, 1965-1975
By: Elaine M. Bapis.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780786433414
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "This study examines changes in the American film industry, audiences, and feature films during 1965-1975. With transformations in production codes, adjustments in national narratives, a rise in independent filmmaking, and a new generation of directors and producers addressing controversial issues on the mainstream screen, film was part of the processes of social change that defined these years"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: As Hollywood turned : expansion, exhibition, codes, and directors at mid-decade; title: A new audience for the now movie : film societies, the college campus, the American Film Institute and making film art; title: The graduate : representing a generation; title: Alice's restaurant : constructing hippie folk and legitimizing revolutionary distinction; title: Back in the saddle again : men, westerns, hippies, and Easy rider; title: Under the influence : representing masculinity in Midnight cowboy; title: No icon left unturned : M*A*S*H and the project of antiestablishment; title: Out of the saddle, into the seventies : gender in McCabe and Mrs. Miller; title: What's sex got to do with it? : Carnal knowledge and the delusion of telling it like it is; title: Forever native: Penn's new authentics in Little Big Man; title: The Godfather films as America; title: Conclusion : cinematic anarchists go generic.