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Hollywood in Transition (Hardcover, New edition)
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Hollywood in Transition (Hardcover, New edition)
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The movie industry has undergone some radical changes in the last
decade and everybody known it. What everybody doesn't realize,
contends MacCann, is that these are not necessarily changes for the
better. There is primarily talk of the new "adult" cinema.
Children's Hour is back and Shirley Maclaine digs Audrey Hepburn.
Have we really come so ??Car, however? MacCann says we haven't,
that though films are no longer made to entertain the 12-year-old
many of the alleged superior releases are geared to titilate the
14-year-old. And, on the subject of the new wave of sex and
fulfillment, he adds his voice to the call for classification:
"There is nothing in the First Amendment which gives every ten-year
old the constitutional right to see Suddenly Last Summer." What of
the new crop of unattached, unfettered "independent producers"? Are
the Brandon, and the ??Hechts, and the ?? as ??avant-garde as all
that? MacCann again say no. "The freedom of the independent has not
broken down restrictions so much as the temper of the times,
competition of TV, the example of foreign films." While the studio
paternalism was often irksome and ??frustrating, the stability of
the system, the security of a fortune gave actors and technicians a
training ground, gave producers a chance to make it in 3 out of 4.
The author deals finally with the new and influential foreign
market. Foreign success is no longer gravy. Half of the total box
office now comes from abroad and this means the Egypt had better
like it. This is for the most part a description of just why and
how the drastic new face of film making has been altered. It is a
competent, knowledgeable and highly entertaining examination.
(Kirkus Reviews)
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