The Hollywood Renaissance : revisiting American cinema's most celebrated era / edited by Peter Krämer and Yannis Tzioumakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Krämer, Peter, 1961- editor.

Tzioumakis, Yannis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.

Summary:

"A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bridging commerce and classification through the American art film: the case of Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) / Justin Wyatt

The film editors who invented the Hollywood Renaissance: Ralph Rosenblum, Sam O'Steen, and Dede Allen's Bonnie and Clyde / Warren Buckland

"I smell money!" class product, The graduate, and the corporatization of embassy / A.T. McKenna

"A triumph of aura over appearance": Barbra Streisand, Funny girl (1968) and the Hollywood Renaissance / Peter Krämer

The auteurist special effects film: Kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey (1968) and the "single-generation look" / Julie Turnock

"About as brutal, relevant and exploitable as they come": medium cool and political filmmaking / Oliver Gruner

From exploitation to legitimacy: Easy rider (1969) and independent cinema's journey into Hollywood / Yannis Tzioumakis

Hollywood trade: Midnight cowboy (1969) and underground cinema / Gary Needham

Zabriskie point (1970), Michelangelo Antonioni and European directors in Hollywood / Melis Behlil

Becoming Hal Ashby: intersectional politics, the "Hollywood Renaissance" and Harold and Maude (1971) / Philip Drake

A matter of race and gender: Lady sings the blues (1972) and the Hollywood Renaissance canon / Charlene Regester

De Niro and Scorsese: director-actor collaboration in Mean streets (1973) and the Hollywood Renaissance / R. Colin Tait

Coppola's The conversation (1974) and Walter Murch's Sound worlds / Frederick Wasser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781501337871

1501337874

9781501337888

1501337882

OCLC:

1044534337