Searching for New Frontiers: Hollywood Films in the 1960s - Couverture rigide

Worland, Rick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1405192992 ISBN 13 : 9781405192996

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405192992
• ISBN 13: 9781405192996
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible