The Limits of Auteurism : Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood / Nicholas Godfrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godfrey, Nicholas, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions. Beginning with the commercial success of Easy Rider in 1969, and ending two years later with the critical and commercial failure of that film's twin progeny, The Last Movie and The Hired Hand, Nicholas Godfrey surveys a key moment that defined the subsequent aesthetic parameters of American commercial art cinema. The book explores the role that contemporary critics played in determining how the movies of this period were understood and how, in turn, strategies of distribution influenced critical responses and dictated the conditions of entry into the rapidly codifying New Hollywood canon. Focusing on a small number of industrially significant films, this new history advances our understanding of this important moment of transition from Classical to contemporary modes of production.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on the Text

Introduction: Open Roads

1. Which New Hollywood?

2. Easy Rider

Part I: Variations on a Theme: Five Easy Riders

3. Five Easy Pieces

4. Two-Lane Blacktop

5. Vanishing Point

6. Little Fauss and Big Halsy

7. Adam at 6 A.M.

Part II: Politicizing Genre

8. Dirty Harry

9. The French Connection

Part III: The Limits of Auteurism

10. The Last Movie

11. The Hired Hand

Conclusion: The End of the Road

Acknowledgments

Filmography

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813589169

0813589169

9780813589176

0813589177

OCLC:

999672121