Peter Yates : on location in the New Hollywood / Jonathan Kirshner. Hal Ashby, gentle giant / Brenda Austin-Smith -- Remaking gender in the early films of Peter Bogdanovich / Douglas McFarland -- In extremis : John Boorman's cinema of dislocation / Ina Rae Hark -- John Cassavetes : in your face and off the grid / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- "Let me love you" : ambiguous masculinity in Michael Cimino's melodramas / I-Lien Tsay -- De Palma's embattled red period : Hitchcock, gender, genre, and postmodernism / Linda Badley -- Escape from escapism : Bob Fosse and the Hollywood Renaissance / Dennis Bingham -- The little deaths of John Frankenheimer / Daniel Varndell -- William Friedkin : frayed connections / Dominic Lennard -- Sidney Lumet and the new Hollywood / David Dresser -- Terrence Malick's emergent lyricism in Badlands and Days of Heaven / Rick Warner -- Elaine May : subverting machismo "step by tiny step" / Kyle Stevens -- Paul Mazursky : the new Hollywood's forgotten man / Lester D. Friedman -- New Hollywood crossover : Joan Micklin Silver and the indie-studio divide / Maya MontanĚez Smukler -- Mike Nichols and the Hollywood Renaissance : a cinema of cultural investigation / Nancy Roche -- "There will be no questions" : 1970s American cinema as parallax in Alan J. Pakula's "paranoia trilogy" / Terence McSweeney -- Genres of the modern mythic in the films of Sam Pekinpah / Daniel Sacco -- Bob Rafelson's ambivalent authorship / Vincent Longo -- We've never danced : Alan Rudolph's Welcome to L.A. and Remember My Name / Steven Rybin -- Jerry Schatzberg's downfall portraits : his cinema of loneliness / R. Barton Palmer -- Inside John Schlesinger outside / Murray Pomerance -- Fire and ice : Paul Schrader / Constantine Verevis -- Peter Yates : on location in the New Hollywood / Jonathan Kirshner.
Summary:
"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."--Provided by publisher.
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