Lost Illusions

American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979

By:

David Cook

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Paperback / softback

Series:

History of the American Cinema

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The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but allowed for the expansion of exploitation films as well. So while unprecedented social and political commentary emanated from the film-school-trained "New Hollywood" auteurs, the bigger change was the major studios' embrace of sensationalist content, mass advertising, and saturation booking. The methods of fringe exploitation producers became the norm. Some of the films discussed in this book include: Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Carnal Knowledge, Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Mean Streets, The Conversation, Nashville, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, and Apocalypse Now.

Author Biography:

David A. Cook is Founding Director of the Film Studies program at Emory University, where he is Professor of Film. He is the author of A History of Narrative Film (1996) and the "Motion Picture History" entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Release date NZ

March 15th, 2002

Author

David Cook

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

281 b-w photographs, 9 tables

Pages

717

Series

History of the American Cinema

Dimensions

178x254x33

ISBN-13

9780520232655

Product ID

2317457

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