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Jonathan Kirshner - Hollywood´s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America - 9780801451348 - V9780801451348
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Hollywood´s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America

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Description for Hollywood´s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.

Kirshner's commentary on these and other films is stimulating...Kirshner's book provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the relation between film and wider culture.The Journal of American Culture

Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ... Read more

These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood’s embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters’ interior lives.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451348
SKU
V9780801451348
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About Jonathan Kirshner
Jonathan Kirshner is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author most recently of Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War and the coeditor of The Future of the Dollar, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Hollywood´s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America
Hollywood's Last Golden Age is an absorbing, well-structured look at the decade of American films that many consider the last great era of thoughtful, politically motivated filmmaking before the rise of the blockbuster.... For those who are already well versed in the period it functions as a great refresher which will likely fill in gaps in one's knowledge, and make ... Read more

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