When the Movies Mattered : : The New Hollywood Revisited / / ed. by Jonathan Kirshner, Jon Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Haskell, Molly,; Hendershot, Heather,; Hoberman, J.,; Kirshner, Jonathan,; Kouvaros, George,; Lewis, Jon,; Lopate, Phillip,; Pippin, Robert,; Sterritt, David,; Thomson, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Kirshner, Jonathan,; Lewis, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 32 b&w halftones, 1 chart

In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit the unique era in American cinema that was New Hollywood. Ten eminent contributors, some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood movement as it unfolded across the 1960s and 1970s, assess the convergence of film-industry developments and momentous social and political changes that created a new type of commercial film that reflected those revolutionary influences in American life. Even as New Hollywood first took shape, film industry insiders and commentators alike realized its significance. At the time, Pauline Kael compared the New Hollywood to the "tangled, bitter flowering of American letters in the 1850s" and David Thomson dubbed the era "the decade when movies mattered." Thomson's words provide the impetus for this volume in which a cohort of seasoned film critics and scholars who came of age watching the movies of this era reflect upon and reconsider this golden age in American filmmaking.Contributors: Molly Haskell, Heather Hendershot, J. Hoberman, George Kouvaros, Phillip Lopate, Robert Pippin, David Sterritt, David Thomson

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The New Hollywood Revisited -- 1. The Mad Housewives of the Neo-Woman’s Film: The Age of Ambivalence Revisited -- 2. Antonioni’s America: Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, and the Making of a New Hollywood -- 3. “Jason’s No Businessman . . . I Think He’s an Artist”: BBS and the New Hollywood Dream -- 4. Robert Altman: Documentaries, Dreamscapes, and Dialogic Cinema -- 5. City of Losers, Losing City: Pacino, New York, and the New Hollywood Cinema -- 6. The Parallax View: Why Trust Anyone? -- 7. Cinematic Tone in Polanski’s Chinatown: Can “Life” Itself Be “False”? -- 8. “I Don’t Know What to Do with My Hands”: John Cassavetes’s The Killing of a Chinese Bookie -- 9. The Spirit of ’76: Travis, Rocky, and Jimmy Carter -- Coda: What “Golden Age”? A Dissenting Opinion -- Appendix: Time Line—the New Hollywood Years -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes -- Index