The Other Hollywood Renaissance
Published on 25. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-1-4744-4266-4 (ISBN)
Description
In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influenced by the international art cinema. Reflecting a new self-consciousness in the US about the national film patrimony, this period is known as the Hollywood Renaissance. However, critical study of the period is generally associated with its so-called principal auteurs, slighting a number of established and emerging directors who were responsible for many of the era's most innovative and artistically successful releases.
With contributions from leading film scholars, this book provides a revisionist account of this creative resurgence by discussing and memorializing twenty-four directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period. Including filmmakers such as Hal Ashby, John Frankenheimer, Mike Nichols, and Joan Micklin Silver, this more expansive approach to the auteurism of the late 1960s and 1970s seems not only appropriate but pressing - a necessary element of the re-evaluation of 'Hollywood' with which cinema studies has been preoccupied under the challenges posed by the emergence and flourishing of new media.
With contributions from leading film scholars, this book provides a revisionist account of this creative resurgence by discussing and memorializing twenty-four directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period. Including filmmakers such as Hal Ashby, John Frankenheimer, Mike Nichols, and Joan Micklin Silver, this more expansive approach to the auteurism of the late 1960s and 1970s seems not only appropriate but pressing - a necessary element of the re-evaluation of 'Hollywood' with which cinema studies has been preoccupied under the challenges posed by the emergence and flourishing of new media.
Reviews / Votes
The Other Hollywood Renaissance is an extraordinary volume which testifies to the incredible richness of 1970s cinema. These 23 concise, eloquent and keenly insightful auteurist essays, expertly assembled, recover and re-examine the considerable achievements of a wide array of directors, ranging from the highly esteemed and well-known (Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols and Terrence Malick) to the highly neglected (John Boorman, Elaine May and Alan Rudolph). Like the best critics, these authors compel us to watch the films anew with a fresh appreciation of their directors' work. -- Matthew Bernstein, Emory University The Other Hollywood Renaissance is an extraordinary volume which testifies to the incredible richness of 1970s cinema. These 23 concise, eloquent and keenly insightful auteurist essays, expertly assembled, recover and re-examine the considerable achievements of a wide array of directors, ranging from the highly esteemed and well-known (Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols and Terrence Malick) to the highly neglected (John Boorman, Elaine May and Alan Rudolph). Like the best critics, these authors compel us to watch the films anew with a fresh appreciation of their directors' work. -- Matthew Bernstein, Emory UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
48 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4266-4 (9781474442664)
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Persons
Dominic Lennard is a Teaching Fellow in the Pre-degree Programs at the University of Tasmania. He is the
author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film (SUNY Press, 2014) and Brute
Force: Animal Horror Movies (SUNY, 2019).
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP's traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance. Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (2020), Grammatical Dreams (2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (2018), among many other volumes, and editor or co-editor of more than two dozen books including The Other Hollywood Renaissance (2020). He edits the "Horizons of Cinema" series at SUNY Press and the "Techniques of the Moving Image" series at Rutgers. A Voyage with Hitchcock and Color It True: Impressions of Cinema are both forthcoming.
author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film (SUNY Press, 2014) and Brute
Force: Animal Horror Movies (SUNY, 2019).
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP's traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance. Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (2020), Grammatical Dreams (2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (2018), among many other volumes, and editor or co-editor of more than two dozen books including The Other Hollywood Renaissance (2020). He edits the "Horizons of Cinema" series at SUNY Press and the "Techniques of the Moving Image" series at Rutgers. A Voyage with Hitchcock and Color It True: Impressions of Cinema are both forthcoming.
Content
List of contributors
Introduction, R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
1. Hal Ashby, Gentle Giant Brenda Austin-Smith
2. Remaking Gender in the Early Films of Peter BogdanovichDouglas McFarland
3. In Extremis: John Boorman's Cinema of DislocationIna Rae Hark
4. John Cassavetes: In Your Face and Off the GridRebecca Bell-Metereau
5. "Let Me Love You": Ambiguous Masculinity in Michael Cimino's MelodramasI-Lien Tsay
6. De Palma's Embattled Red Period: Hitchcock, Gender, Genre, and PostmodernismLinda Badley
7. Escape from Escapism: Bob Fosse and the Hollywood RenaissanceDennis Bingham
8. The Little Deaths of John FrankenheimerDaniel Varndell
9. William Friedkin: Frayed ConnectionsDominic Lennard
10. Sidney Lumet and the New HollywoodDavid Desser
11. Terrence Malick's Emergent Lyricism in Badlands and Days of HeavenRick Warner
12. Elaine May: Subverting Machismo "Step by Tiny Step" Kyle Stevens
13. Paul Mazursky: The New Hollywood's Forgotten ManLester D. Friedman
14. New Hollywood Crossover: Joan Micklin Silver & the Indie-Studio DivideMaya Montanez Smukler
15. Mike Nichols and the Hollywood Renaissance: A Cinema of Cultural InvestigationNancy Roche
16. "There will be no questions": 1970s American Cinema as Parallax in Alan J. Pakula's 'Paranoia Trilogy'Terence McSweeney
17. Genres of the Modern Mythic in the Films of Sam PeckinpahDaniel Sacco
18. Bob Rafelson's Ambivalent AuthorshipVincent Longo19. We've Never Danced: Alan Rudolph's Welcome to L.A. and Remember My NameSteven Rybin
20. Jerry Schatzberg's Downfall Portraits: His Cinema of LonelinessR. Barton Palmer
21. Inside John Schlesinger OutsideMurray Pomerance
22. Fire and Ice: Paul SchraderConstantine Verevis
23. Peter Yates: On Location in the New HollywoodJonathan Kirshner
Introduction, R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
1. Hal Ashby, Gentle Giant Brenda Austin-Smith
2. Remaking Gender in the Early Films of Peter BogdanovichDouglas McFarland
3. In Extremis: John Boorman's Cinema of DislocationIna Rae Hark
4. John Cassavetes: In Your Face and Off the GridRebecca Bell-Metereau
5. "Let Me Love You": Ambiguous Masculinity in Michael Cimino's MelodramasI-Lien Tsay
6. De Palma's Embattled Red Period: Hitchcock, Gender, Genre, and PostmodernismLinda Badley
7. Escape from Escapism: Bob Fosse and the Hollywood RenaissanceDennis Bingham
8. The Little Deaths of John FrankenheimerDaniel Varndell
9. William Friedkin: Frayed ConnectionsDominic Lennard
10. Sidney Lumet and the New HollywoodDavid Desser
11. Terrence Malick's Emergent Lyricism in Badlands and Days of HeavenRick Warner
12. Elaine May: Subverting Machismo "Step by Tiny Step" Kyle Stevens
13. Paul Mazursky: The New Hollywood's Forgotten ManLester D. Friedman
14. New Hollywood Crossover: Joan Micklin Silver & the Indie-Studio DivideMaya Montanez Smukler
15. Mike Nichols and the Hollywood Renaissance: A Cinema of Cultural InvestigationNancy Roche
16. "There will be no questions": 1970s American Cinema as Parallax in Alan J. Pakula's 'Paranoia Trilogy'Terence McSweeney
17. Genres of the Modern Mythic in the Films of Sam PeckinpahDaniel Sacco
18. Bob Rafelson's Ambivalent AuthorshipVincent Longo19. We've Never Danced: Alan Rudolph's Welcome to L.A. and Remember My NameSteven Rybin
20. Jerry Schatzberg's Downfall Portraits: His Cinema of LonelinessR. Barton Palmer
21. Inside John Schlesinger OutsideMurray Pomerance
22. Fire and Ice: Paul SchraderConstantine Verevis
23. Peter Yates: On Location in the New HollywoodJonathan Kirshner