When the movies mattered : the New Hollywood revisited / edited by Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirshner, Jonathan, editor.

Lewis, Jon, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

History.

United States.

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

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Ten well respected writers on the subject of the New Hollywood look back at a golden age in American cinema"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the New Hollywood revisited / Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis

The mad housewives of the neo-woman's film : the age of ambivalence revisited / Molly Haskell

Antonioni's America : Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, and the making of a New Hollywood / Jon Lewis

Jason's no businessman . . . I think he's an artist : BBS and the New Hollywood dream / Jonathan Kirshner

Robert Altman : documentaries, dreamscapes, and dialogic cinema / David Sterritt

City of losers, losing city : Pacino, New York, and the New Hollywood cinema / Heather Hendershot

The Parallax View : why trust anyone? / David Thomson

Cinematic tone in Polanski's Chinatown : can life itself be false? / Robert Pippin

"I don't know what to do with my hands" : John Cassavetes' The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / George Kouvaros

The spirit of '76 : Travis, Rocky and Jimmy Carter / J Hoberman

Coda : what "golden age"? A dissenting opinion / Phillip Lopate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: When the movies mattered

ISBN:

9781501736100

1501736108

9781501736094

1501736094

OCLC:

1055262746