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Road Trip to Nowhere - Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture (Paperback)
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Road Trip to Nowhere - Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture (Paperback)
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How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape
of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture. By 1967,
the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties
counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in
bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump
and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the
movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten-year span (from 1967 to
1976) rife with uneasy encounters between artists caught up in the
counterculture and a corporate establishment still clinging to a
studio system on the brink of collapse. Out of this tumultuous
period many among the young and talented walked away from
celebrity, turning down the best job Hollywood-and America-had on
offer: movie star. Road Trip to Nowhere elaborates a
primary-sourced history of movie production culture, examining the
lives of a number of talented actors who got wrapped up in the
politics and lifestyles of the counterculture. Thoroughly put off
by celebrity culture, actors like Dennis Hopper, Christopher Jones,
Jean Seberg, and others rejected the aspirational backstory and
inevitable material trappings of success, much to the chagrin of
the studios and directors who backed them. In Road Trip to Nowhere,
film historian Jon Lewis details dramatic encounters on movie sets
and in corporate boardrooms, on the job and on the streets, and in
doing so offers an entertaining and rigorous historical account of
an out-of-touch Hollywood establishment and the counterculture
workforce they would never come to understand.
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