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Book SynopsisThe profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in twentieth century. This title examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent and experimental films.
Trade Review“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”
* American Quarterly *
“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”
* American Quarterly *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: movies and the 1960s / Barry Keith Grant
1960: movies and intimations of disaster and hope / Christopher Sharrett
1961: movies and civil rights / Anna Everett
1962: movies and deterioration / Eric Schaefer
1963: movies and the little soldiers of the new frontier / Joe McElhaney
1964: movies, the Great Society, and the new sensibility / James Morrison
1965: movies and the color line / David Desser
1966: movies and camp / Harry M. Benshoff
1967: movies and the specter of rebellion / Murray Pomerance
1968: movies and the failure of nostalgia / Leslie H. Abramson
1969: movies and the counterculture / Christie Milliken
Select Academy Awards, 1960-1969
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