Searching for new frontiers : Hollywood films in the 1960s / Rick Worland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worland, Rick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

History.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

United States.

California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

viii, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Post Hollywood and a changing America.

Hollywood, Hitchcock, and the postwar era

Domestic relations, 1953-1967, Bachelor pads, nervous dads, & marriages on the rocks; welcoming The Graduate

Negotiating the civil rights movement, To kill a mockingbird; the rise of Sidney Poitier

The new Hollywood, Vietnam, and the schism.

Art cinema and counter-culture, Dr. Strangelove, A Hard day's night, Blow up, Bonnie and Clyde, Weekend

Nowhere to run: the late western. One-eyed Jacks, The Man who shot Liberty Valance, A Fistful of dollars, the Wild Bunch

The War, The Longest day, Hell is for heroes, The Dirty dozen, Castle keep, The Green berets

Far out: new Hollywood voyages of discovery, A Space odyssey, Easy rider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Worland, Rick, author. Searching for new frontiers

ISBN:

9781405192996

1405192992

9781405192989

1405192984

OCLC:

1005127027