Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance - Representing Rough Rebels (Hardcover)

"Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance: Representing Rough Rebels" serves as a corrective supplement to the extant, director-centric history of American cinema's most lauded period. In contrast to star studies that showcase disparate performances, this book focuses on a specific time and place - Hollywood in the crucible, formative years from 1968 through 1971 - and offers close analysis of star actors' deterministic influences over nine of the era's most hallowed films. By examining film reviews and 'star press' from the national magazines whose covers they then dominated, Smith-Rowsey shows how three emergent 'Rough Rebels' - Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Elliott Gould - were understood and contextualized as the best possible responses to Hollywood's twin crises of capital and creativity. As a summary, Hoffman, Nicholson, and Gould, as well as their peers and successors, were positioned and received as absurdist, ironic, and dismissive toward women, and these qualities cast a wide shadow over both their films and much Hollywood cinema in the following decades.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Daniel Smith-Rowsey
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	191
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-31038-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-137-31038-3
Barcode:	9781137310385

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