Searching for New Frontiers

Hollywood Films in the 1960s

AvRick Worland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Searching For New Frontiers 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. The book covers significant genres and evolving thematic trends, highlighting a variety of movies that confronted the era’s major social issues. It notes the stylistic confluence and exchanges between three forms: the traditional studio movie based on the combination of stars and genres, low-budget exploitation movies, and the international art cinema. As the author reveals, this complex period of American filmmaking was neither random nor the product of unique talents working in a vacuum. The filmmakers met head-on with an evolving American social conscience to create a Hollywood cinema of an era defined by events such as the Vietnam War, the rise of the civil rights movement, and the moon landing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-27
Mått:155 x 231 x 18 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405192996

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Rick Worland is Professor of Film & Media Arts at Southern Methodist University where he teaches film history, documentary, and popular genres including Westerns and horror films.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Changing Times 1Part I Postwar Hollywood and a Changing America 131 Hollywood, Hitchcock, and the Postwar Era 15“The Vital Center” … Cannot Hold 17Postwar Film Production and Exhibition 21New Looks at Mothers, Genres, and Style 262 Domestic Relations, 1953–1967: Bachelor Pads,Nervous Dads, and Marriages on the Rocks 39Bachelor Pads 41Nervous Dads (and Moms) 58Marriages on the Rocks 66Welcoming The Graduate 713 Negotiating the Civil Rights Movement: Message Movies, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Rise of Sidney Poitier 83It’s a Sin 85An American Story 94Poitier, ’67 99Part II The New Hollywood, Vietnam, and the Schism 111Weekend 1134 Art Cinema and Counter]Culture: Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day’s Night, Blow Up, Bonnie and Clyde, and General Ripper Exceeds His Authority 118Meet the Beatles (and the New European Cinema) 125Quiet Enigma in Swinging London 129“We Rob Banks” 137Coda: “Battleship Potemkin Calling the Searchers” 1465 Nowhere to Run: One-Eyed Jacks, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, A Fistful of Dollars, and The Wild Bunch 153The Frontier Myth and the Classical Western 155California – or Maybe Oregon 158“Who Was Tom Doniphon?” 162No Name, Sudden Impact 169“Those Days Are Closing Fast” 175Destroying and Saving the Village 1816 The War: From The Longest Day to The Green Berets 191“The Good War” Refought and Rethought 192Unconventional Warfare 201Art of War 208The Only War We’ve Got 2117 Far Out:2001: A Space Odyssey and Easy Rider 225Beyond the Infinite 226Marketing and Reception 237From Hell’s Angels to Easy Riders 239They Blew It, But … 248Afterword 259Bibliography 265Index 275