What is "New Hollywood"? The "art" cinema of the Hollywood
"Renaissance" or the corporate controlled blockbuster? The
introverted world of Travis Bickle or the action heroics of Indiana
Jones, Buzz Lightyear, and Maximus the Gladiator? Innovative
departures from the "classical" Hollywood style or superficial
glitz, special effects, and borrowings from MTV? Wholesale change
or important continuities with Hollywood's past? The answer
suggested by Geoff King in "New Hollywood Cinema" is all of these
and more. He examines New Hollywood from three main perspectives:
film style, industry, and the social-historical context. Each is
considered in its own right, sometimes resulting in different ways
of defining New Hollywood. But one of the book's central arguments
is that a combination of these approaches is needed if we are to
understand the latest incarnations of the cinema that continues to
dominate the global market.
King looks at the Hollywood "Renaissance" from the late 1960s to
the late 1970s, industrial factors shaping the construction of the
corporate blockbuster, the role of auteur directors, genre and
stardom in New Hollywood, narrative and spectacle in the
contemporary blockbuster, and the relationship between production
for the big and small screens.
Case studies considered include "Taxi Driver, Godzilla," and
"Gladiator," tracing the roots of New Hollywood from the 1950s to
the start of the twenty-first century.
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