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American Films of the 70s

Author : Peter Lev
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778090
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book American Films of the 70s written by Peter Lev and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and disco musicals to a loving look at General George S. Patton. Indeed, as Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book, the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be—open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change. Examining forty films thematically, Lev explores the conflicting visions presented in films with the following kinds of subject matter: Hippies (Easy Rider, Alice's Restaurant) Cops (The French Connection, Dirty Harry) Disasters and conspiracies (Jaws, Chinatown) End of the Sixties (Nashville, The Big Chill) Art, Sex, and Hollywood (Last Tango in Paris) Teens (American Graffiti, Animal House) War (Patton, Apocalypse Now) African-Americans (Shaft, Superfly) Feminisms (An Unmarried Woman, The China Syndrome) Future visions (Star Wars, Blade Runner) As accessible to ordinary moviegoers as to film scholars, Lev's book is an essential companion to these familiar, well-loved movies.

Movies of the 70s

Author : Jürgen Müller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836561167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Movies of the 70s written by Jürgen Müller and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many film lovers, the 1970s represent a high point in creativity, a golden age of individualist directors making their marks. In this book you'll find a host of key movies of the era that saw a flowering of talent and the arrival of the blockbuster with the likes of Jaws and Star Wars.

Easy Riders Raging Bulls

Author : Peter Biskind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126615
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Easy Riders Raging Bulls written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars, how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off. After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film stars -- Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunaway -- seemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. By turns hilarious and shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play.

Hollywood's Last Golden Age

Author : Jonathan Kirshner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465400
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's Last Golden Age written by Jonathan Kirshner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ways in which key films from this period—including Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Graduate, and Nashville, as well as underappreciated films such as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Klute, and Night Moves—were important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times. These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood’s embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters’ interior lives.

Hollywood Films of the Seventies

Author : Seth Cagin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Films of the Seventies written by Seth Cagin and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Great American Picture Show

Author : Alexander Horwath
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053566317
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great American Picture Show written by Alexander Horwath and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.

Hollywood Reborn

Author : James Morrison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547482
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Reborn written by James Morrison and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the way various film icons engaged in and helped define some major issues of cultural and social concern to America by making heavily politicized movies during the 1970s.

The Seventies

Author : Vincent LoBrutto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538137194
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Seventies written by Vincent LoBrutto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating year-by-year history of American film in the seventies, a decade filled with innovations that reinvented the medium and showed that movies can be more than entertainment. In The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever, Vincent LoBrutto tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic Hollywood studio system to a new generation of filmmakers who made personal movies targeting a younger audience. He covers in kaleidoscopic detail the breadth of American cinema during the 1970s, with analyses of the movies, biographical sketches of the filmmakers, and an examination of the innovative production methods that together illustrate why the seventies were unique in American film history. Featuring iconic filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola and films such The Godfather, Jaws, Taxi Driver, and The Exorcist, this book reveals how the seventies challenged the old guard in groundbreaking and exciting ways, ushering in a new Hollywood era whose impact is still seen in American film today.

Liberating Hollywood

Author : Maya Montañez Smukler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813587492
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Hollywood written by Maya Montañez Smukler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theater Library Association Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry. Throughout the 1970s feminist reform efforts resulted in a noticeable rise in the number of women directors, yet at the same time the institutionalized sexism of Hollywood continued to create obstacles to closing the gender gap. Maya Montañez Smukler reveals that during this era there were an estimated sixteen women making independent and studio films: Penny Allen, Karen Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Joan Darling, Lee Grant, Barbara Loden, Elaine May, Barbara Peeters, Joan Rivers, Stephanie Rothman, Beverly Sebastian, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Tewkesbury, Jane Wagner, Nancy Walker, and Claudia Weill. Drawing on interviews conducted by the author, Liberating Hollywood is the first study of women directors within the intersection of second wave feminism, civil rights legislation, and Hollywood to investigate the remarkable careers of these filmmakers during one of the most mythologized periods in American film history.

The New Hollywood

Author : James Bernardoni
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786483075
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The New Hollywood written by James Bernardoni and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Old Hollywood" of studios, stars, and house directors began to break up in the 1960s. Newly independent directors freed from budgetary and aesthetic limitations imposed by studio moguls were the "New Hollywood." Directors could develop their own styles, hire whom they wanted, and make movies that would dazzle jaded audiences. Hollywood would never be the same ... What happened? The author looks at the productions of the "New Hollywood" to answer that question. Scene by scene analyses of some of the 70s most significant films (i. e., Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, M. A. S. H., Annie Hall, and American Graffiti) assess both the successes and failures of the New Hollywood.

Hollywood Incoherent

Author : Todd Berliner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292737525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Incoherent written by Todd Berliner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywood's own history of narrative ingenuity, directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, William Friedkin, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola undermined the harmony of traditional Hollywood cinema and created some of the best movies ever to come out of the American film industry. Critics have previously viewed these films as a response to the cultural and political upheavals of the 1970s, but until now no one has explored how the period's inventive narrative design represents one of the great artistic accomplishments of American cinema. In Hollywood Incoherent, Todd Berliner offers the first thorough analysis of the narrative and stylistic innovations of seventies cinema and its influence on contemporary American filmmaking. He examines not just formally eccentric films—Nashville; Taxi Driver; A Clockwork Orange; The Godfather, Part II; and the films of John Cassavetes—but also mainstream commercial films, including The Exorcist, The Godfather, The French Connection, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown, The Bad News Bears, Patton, All the President's Men, Annie Hall, and many others. With persuasive revisionist analyses, Berliner demonstrates the centrality of this period to the history of Hollywood's formal development, showing how seventies films represent the key turning point between the storytelling modes of the studio era and those of modern American cinema.

Movies of the 60s

Author : Jürgen Müller
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9783822827994
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Movies of the 60s written by Jürgen Müller and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jürgen Müller's overview of the films of the 1960s has over a hundred A to Z entries that include synopses, film stills, cast and crew listings, box office figures, trivia and actor and director biographies. The book covers examples of Italian, French, German and American movies that strongly characterized the 1960s.

A History of 1970s Experimental Film

Author : P. Gaal-Holmes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137369388
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book A History of 1970s Experimental Film written by P. Gaal-Holmes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories. An indispensable book for practitioners, historians and critics alike, it provides new interpretations of this rich and diverse history.

The Stewardess is Flying the Plane!

Author : Ron Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821257227
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Stewardess is Flying the Plane! written by Ron Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'The Godfather' to 'Alien' - an illustrated look at the second golden age of filmmaking.

Hollywood Renaissance

Author : Diane Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Renaissance written by Diane Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Illusions

Author : David A. Cook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520232655
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Lost Illusions written by David A. Cook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development of film and the film industry during the 1970s and the political and economic background that influenced it.

American Cinema of the 1970s

Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0813540232
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1970s written by Lester D. Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smug glance at the seventies—the so-called "Me Decade"—unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics—all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. The contributors to this volume look beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Bringing together ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1970s examines the range of films that marked the decade, including Jaws, Rocky, Love Story, Shaft, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Deliverance, The Exorcist, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Apocalypse Now.