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Star actors in the Hollywood renaissance : representing rough rebels / Daniel Smith-Rowsey.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U65 S65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith-Rowsey, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gould, Elliott.
- Nicholson, Jack.
- Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- United States.
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Hoffman, Dustin, 1937---Criticism and interpretation.
- Hoffman, Dustin.
- Nicholson, Jack--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gould, Elliott--Criticism and interpretation.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance: Representing Rough Rebels serves as a corrective supplement to the extant, director-centric history of American cinema's most lauded period. In contrast to star studies that showcase disparate performances, this book focuses on a specific time and place - Hollywood in the crucible, formative years from 1968 to 1971 - and offers close analysis of star actors' deterministic influences over nine of the era's most hallowed films. By examining film reviews and "star press" from the national magazines whose covers they then dominated, Daniel Smith-Rowsey shows how three emergent "ethnic everymen" or "Rough Rebels" - Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Elliott Gould - were understood and contextualized as the best possible responses to Hollywood's twin crises of capital and creativity. As a summary, Hoffman, Nicholson, and Gould, as well as their peers and successors, were positioned and received as alienated, ironic, and dismissive toward women, and these qualities cast a wide shadow over both their films and much American cinema in the following decades. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 How to Represent a Rough Rebel 1
- 2 Dustin Hoffman: The Artistic Star 33
- 3 Jack Nicholson: The Realistic Romantic 74
- 4 Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote 113
- 5 Conclusion 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1137310383
- 9781137310385
- OCLC:
- 825047355
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