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The Hollywood Renaissance - Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era (Paperback)
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The Hollywood Renaissance - Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era (Paperback)
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In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover
and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a
'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and
thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of
the American film industry, often (but by no means always)
combining success at the box office with huge critical acclaim,
both then and later. This collection brings together acknowledged
experts on American cinema to examine thirteen key films from the
years 1966 to 1974, starting with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
a major studio release which was in effect exempted from
Hollywood's Production Code and thus helped to liberate American
filmmaking from (self-)censorship. Long-standing taboos to do with
sex, violence, race relations, drugs, politics, religion and much
else could now be broken, often in conjunction with extensive
stylistic experimentation. Whereas most previous scholarship has
examined these developments through the prism of auteurism, with
its tight focus on film directors and their oeuvres, the
contributors to this collection also carefully examine production
histories and processes. In doing so they pay particular attention
to the economic underpinnings and collaborative nature of
filmmaking, the influence of European art cinema as well as of
exploitation, experimental and underground films, and the
connections between cinema and other media (notably publishing,
music and theatre). Several chapters show how the innovations of
the Hollywood Renaissance relate to further changes in American
cinema from the mid-1970s onwards.
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