The Other Hollywood Renaissance

Dominic Lennard, R. Barton Palmer, Murray Pomerance

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781474442657
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• THE OTHER HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• FIGURES
• NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
• THE NEW PICTURE SHOW: AN INTRODUCTION
• 1. HAL ASHBY, GENTLE GIANT
• 2. REMAKING GENDER IN THE EARLY FILMS OF PETER BOGDANOVICH
• 3. IN EXTREMIS: JOHN BOORMAN’S CINEMA OF DISLOCATION
• 4. JOHN CASSAVETES: IN YOUR FACE AND OFF THE GRID
• 5. “LET ME LOVE YOU”: AMBIGUOUS MASCULINITY IN MICHAEL CIMINO’S MELODRAMAS
• 6. DE PALMA’S EMBATTLED RED PERIOD: HITCHCOCK, GENDER, GENRE, AND POSTMODERNISM
• 7. ESCAPE FROM ESCAPISM: BOB FOSSE AND THE HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE
• 8. THE LITTLE DEATHS OF JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
• 9. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN: FRAYED CONNECTIONS
• 10. SIDNEY LUMET AND THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
• 11. TERRENCE MALICK’S EMERGENT LYRICISM IN BADLANDS AND DAYS OF HEAVEN
• 12. ELAINE MAY: SUBVERTING MACHISMO “STEP BY TINY STEP”
• 13. PAUL MAZURSKY: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD’S FORGOTTEN MAN
• 14. NEW HOLLYWOOD CROSSOVER: JOAN MICKLIN SILVER AND THE INDIE-STUDIO DIVIDE
• 15. MIKE NICHOLS AND THE HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE: A CINEMA OF CULTURAL INVESTIGATION
• 16. “THERE WILL BE NO QUESTIONS”: 1970S AMERICAN CINEMA AS PARALLAX IN ALAN J. PAKULA’S “PARANOIA TRILOGY”
• 17. GENRES OF THE MODERN MYTHIC IN THE FILMS OF SAM PECKINPAH
• 18. BOB RAFELSON’S AMBIVALENT AUTHORSHIP
• 19. WE’VE NEVER DANCED: ALAN RUDOLPH’S WELCOME TO L.A. AND REMEMBER MY NAME
• 20. JERRY SCHATZBERG’S DOWNFALL PORTRAITS: HIS CINEMA OF LONELINESS
• 21. INSIDE JOHN SCHLESINGER’S OUTSIDE
• 22. FIRE AND ICE: PAUL SCHRADE
• 23. PETER YATES: ON LOCATION IN THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
• INDEX