The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars

by Peter Krämer

Overview

On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence … Sex … Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the biggest hits of the period (including The Graduate [1967], The Exorcist [1973] and Jaws [1975]). He relates the distinctive features of these hits to changes in the film industry, in its audiences and in American society at large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231850056
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/17/2006
Series:	Short Cuts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Peter Krämer is lecturer in film studies at the University of East Anglia. He is the coeditor of Screen Acting and The Silent Cinema Reader.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: 1967 and Beyond
1. Superhits of the New Hollywood and the Roadshow Era
2. From the Roadshow Era to the New Hollywood I
3. From the Roadshow Era to the New Hollywood II
Conclusion: 1977 and Beyond
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

This is an important book that elegantly negotiates a difficult pathway between introductory overview and specialist analysis.

Sight and Sound