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The Limits of Auteurism : Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood / Nicholas Godfrey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (282 p.) : 30 black and white photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813589152
  • 9780813589176
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/3301 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction: Open Roads -- 1. Which New Hollywood? -- 2. Easy Rider -- Part I: Variations on a Theme: Five Easy Riders -- 3. Five Easy Pieces -- 4. Two-Lane Blacktop -- 5. Vanishing Point -- 6. Little Fauss and Big Halsy -- 7. Adam at 6 A.M. -- Part II: Politicizing Genre -- 8. Dirty Harry -- 9. The French Connection -- Part III: The Limits of Auteurism -- 10. The Last Movie -- 11. The Hired Hand -- Conclusion: The End of the Road -- Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions. Beginning with the commercial success of Easy Rider in 1969, and ending two years later with the critical and commercial failure of that film's twin progeny, The Last Movie and The Hired Hand, Nicholas Godfrey surveys a key moment that defined the subsequent aesthetic parameters of American commercial art cinema. The book explores the role that contemporary critics played in determining how the movies of this period were understood and how, in turn, strategies of distribution influenced critical responses and dictated the conditions of entry into the rapidly codifying New Hollywood canon. Focusing on a small number of industrially significant films, this new history advances our understanding of this important moment of transition from Classical to contemporary modes of production.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction: Open Roads -- 1. Which New Hollywood? -- 2. Easy Rider -- Part I: Variations on a Theme: Five Easy Riders -- 3. Five Easy Pieces -- 4. Two-Lane Blacktop -- 5. Vanishing Point -- 6. Little Fauss and Big Halsy -- 7. Adam at 6 A.M. -- Part II: Politicizing Genre -- 8. Dirty Harry -- 9. The French Connection -- Part III: The Limits of Auteurism -- 10. The Last Movie -- 11. The Hired Hand -- Conclusion: The End of the Road -- Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions. Beginning with the commercial success of Easy Rider in 1969, and ending two years later with the critical and commercial failure of that film's twin progeny, The Last Movie and The Hired Hand, Nicholas Godfrey surveys a key moment that defined the subsequent aesthetic parameters of American commercial art cinema. The book explores the role that contemporary critics played in determining how the movies of this period were understood and how, in turn, strategies of distribution influenced critical responses and dictated the conditions of entry into the rapidly codifying New Hollywood canon. Focusing on a small number of industrially significant films, this new history advances our understanding of this important moment of transition from Classical to contemporary modes of production.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)