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Book The Sixties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Monaco
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-06
  • ISBN : 0520238044
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book The Sixties written by Paul Monaco and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the 1960's as part of the definitive history of American cinema from its emergence in the 1800s to the present day.

Book Sixties Shockers

Download or read book Sixties Shockers written by Mark Clark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from the 1960s. During those tumultuous years horror cinema flourished, proving as innovative and unpredictable as the decade itself. Representative titles include Night of the Living Dead, The Haunting, Carnival of Souls, Repulsion, The Masque of the Red Death, Targets and The Conqueror Worm. An historical overview chronicles the explosive growth of horror films during this era, as well as the emergence of such dynamic directorial talents as Roman Polanski, George Romero, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

Book The Sixties  1960 1969

Download or read book The Sixties 1960 1969 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2012 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback. The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time - Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham and many others. They are most revealing about Isherwood himself - his fiction, his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart. In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period such as the anxieties of the Cold War, the moon landing and the Vietnam war. In The SixtiesIsherwood turns his fearless eye on the decade which more than any other has shaped the way we live now.

Book More Than Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Naremore
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2008-01-14
  • ISBN : 0520254023
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book More Than Night written by James Naremore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."—Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity

Book The Sixties  1960 1969

Download or read book The Sixties 1960 1969 written by Paul Monaco and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Cinema of the 1960s

Download or read book American Cinema of the 1960s written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and the independent and experimental films.

Book 1960 to 1969 The Social Revolution

Download or read book 1960 to 1969 The Social Revolution written by Rich Linville and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s or Sixties is referred to as the Social Revolution. It was a time of the Vietnam War, civil rights movements, assassinations, and the beginning of a generation gap. A slogan used during this time was Flower Power which was a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence.

Book Beaton in the Sixties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cecil Beaton
  • Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780297645566
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Beaton in the Sixties written by Cecil Beaton and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s contains some of the very best set pieces, including Churchill's funeral. He has just completed making the film, My Fair Lady, which included rows with the director George Cukor, Rex Harrison's fondness for watching live sex, Cukor on Audrey Hepburn's figure etc. (Cecil was also the master at slicing up Hollywood social life at that period. He loathed it). His partner Kin, who has spent a year with him in England, returns to the USA, leaving Cecil to loneliness - but not for long. He is soon travelling aboard Cecile de Rothschild's yacht with Garbo - his former lover - as a fellow traveller. He visits Picasso at his home, the Rolling Stones in Marrakech; Andy Warhol in New York. Here is the young David Hockney, Peter Sellers being beastly, Paul Getty being mean. Cecil is fascinated by this new generation testing the boundaries as he and his friends had done in the 1920s. Friendships remain important - the Avons, Lady Juliet Duff, Lady Diana Cooper, Mrs Heinz. He also sees off all younger competition as photographer royal and as in the previous volume there are some very funny and often very pointed entries about the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Marina, Princess Marga

Book Diaries  1939 1960

Download or read book Diaries 1939 1960 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den engelske forfatters (1904-1986) dagbøger

Book Crossroads

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  • Author : Mitchell K. Hall
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780742544444
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Crossroads written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era. This book explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and the transformation that generation wrought in movies, television, sports, and music. It looks at the ways in which these cultural elements reflected the upheaval and unrest in Vietnam era America.

Book American Cinema of the 1960s

Download or read book American Cinema of the 1960s written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the Vietnam War divided Americans. Civil rights, women's liberation, and gay rights further emerged as significant social issues. Free love was celebrated even as the decade was marked by assassinations, mass murders, and social unrest. At the same time, American cinema underwent radical change as well. The studio system crumbled, and the Production Code was replaced by a new ratings system. Among the challenges faced by the film industry was the dawning shift in theatrical exhibition from urban centers to surburban multiplexes, an increase in runaway productions, the rise of independent producers, and competition from both television and foreign art films. Hollywood movies became more cynical, violent, and sexually explicit, reflecting the changing values of the time. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1960s examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent and experimental films. Among the films discussed are Elmer Gantry, The Apartment, West Side Story, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, and Easy Rider.

Book The Magnificent  60s

Download or read book The Magnificent 60s written by Brian Hannan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust. Yet the decade spawned many of the greatest films ever made, saw the advent of the spy thriller, the revival of science fiction and horror, and represented the Golden Era of the 70mm roadshow. Blockbusters like Lawrence of Arabia and The Sound of Music shared marquees with low-budget hits such as Lilies of the Field and Easy Rider. New stars emerged--Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand, Sean Connery, Faye Dunaway, Clint Eastwood and Dustin Hoffman. Veteran directors like Billy Wilder and William Wyler were joined by the post-war generation of Robert Aldrich and Stanley Kramer, and the new wave of Stanley Kubrick and John Schlesinger. This book explores a period when filmmakers embraced revolutionary attitudes to sexuality, violence and racism, and produced a bewildering list of critically acclaimed classics that remain audience favorites.

Book Film and Colonialism in the Sixties

Download or read book Film and Colonialism in the Sixties written by Jon Cowans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. As nearly all of the West’s colonies gained their independence by 1975, attitudes toward colonialism in the West also changed, and terms such as empire and colonialism, once used with pride, became strongly negative. While colonialism has become discredited, precisely when or how that happened remains unclear. This book explores changing Western attitudes toward colonialism and decolonization by analyzing American, British, and French popular cinema and its reception from 1960 to 1973.

Book The Classical Hollywood Reader

Download or read book The Classical Hollywood Reader written by Stephen Neale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Designing Sound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Beck
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-07
  • ISBN : 0813573076
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Designing Sound written by Jay Beck and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with aesthetically innovative works. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, those filmmakers were blessed with more than just visionary eyes; Designing Sound focuses on how those filmmakers also had keen ears that enabled them to perceive new possibilities for cinematic sound design. Offering detailed case studies of key films and filmmakers, Jay Beck explores how sound design was central to the era’s experimentation with new modes of cinematic storytelling. He demonstrates how sound was key to many directors’ signature aesthetics, from the overlapping dialogue that contributes to Robert Altman’s naturalism to the wordless interludes at the heart of Terrence Malick’s lyricism. Yet the book also examines sound design as a collaborative process, one where certain key directors ceded authority to sound technicians who offered significant creative input. Designing Sound provides readers with a fresh take on a much-studied era in American film, giving a new appreciation of how artistry emerged from a period of rapid industrial and technological change. Filled with rich behind-the-scenes details, the book vividly conveys how sound practices developed by 1970s filmmakers changed the course of American cinema.

Book Searching for New Frontiers

Download or read book Searching for New Frontiers written by Rick Worland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching For New Frontiers offers film students and general readers a survey of popular movies of the 1960s. The author explores the most important modes of filmmaking in times that were at once hopeful, exhilarating, and daunting. The text combines discussion of American social and political history and Hollywood industry changes with analysis of some of the era’s most expressive movies. The book covers significant genres and evolving thematic trends, highlighting a variety of movies that confronted the era’s major social issues. It notes the stylistic confluence and exchanges between three forms: the traditional studio movie based on the combination of stars and genres, low-budget exploitation movies, and the international art cinema. As the author reveals, this complex period of American filmmaking was neither random nor the product of unique talents working in a vacuum. The filmmakers met head-on with an evolving American social conscience to create a Hollywood cinema of an era defined by events such as the Vietnam War, the rise of the civil rights movement, and the moon landing.

Book Contemporary American Cinema

Download or read book Contemporary American Cinema written by Williams , Linda Ruth and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical American film. Covering American cinema since 1960, the text looks at both Hollywood and non-mainstream cinema.