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Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
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The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). In Hollywood, the genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s and 50s - musicals, Westerns, melodramas - were losing their appeal and their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young, the discriminating, the politically conscious and the sexually emancipated. Making ... Read more a sharp, focused, and brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context - capturing the distinctiveness of a decade which was great for the cinema and for the world at large. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith pays particular attention to a handful of the most remarkable talents (Godard, Antonioni, Oshima) that emerged during the period and helped to make it so special. Nowell-Smith updates his classic text with a focus on 1960s Japan and the burgeoning New York scene. Show Less
The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). In Hollywood, the genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s and 50s - musicals, Westerns, melodramas - were losing their appeal and their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young, the discriminating, the politically conscious and the sexually emancipated. Making ... Read more a sharp, focused, and brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context - capturing the distinctiveness of a decade which was great for the cinema and for the world at large. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith pays particular attention to a handful of the most remarkable talents (Godard, Antonioni, Oshima) that emerged during the period and helped to make it so special. Nowell-Smith updates his classic text with a focus on 1960s Japan and the burgeoning New York scene. Show Less
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781623565084
SKU
V9781623565084
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About Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London.
Reviews for Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s
Veteran film scholar Nowell-Smith (The Oxford History of World Cinema) is indeed ‘making waves’ as he demystifies the new cinemas of the 1960s in Europe and Latin America. He doesn’t hesitate to point out that a new-wave director’s use of a documentary style or black and white was because of financial rather than aesthetic reasons, or that some of the ... Read more