New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction



New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction

Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd | ISBN: 1860647499 | edition 2002 | PDF | 305 pages | 13,8 mb


A complex American ‘art’ cinema of innovation and experimentation, or the simplistic world of the comic-book blockbuster? The introverted obsessions of Travis Bickle and Harry Caul, or the action heroics of Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones or Buzz Lightyear? Street-level independent production, or giant multimedia conglomerates? Radical visions or conservative backlash? Unsettling departures from ‘classical’ Hollywood style, or superficial glitz and over-insistent rhetoric drawn from advertising and MTV? Filmmakers as visionary artists, or as emptily stylish raiders of the cinematic past? ‘Modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’?

Wholesale change, or important continuities with the past?





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