{"product_id":"searching-for-new-frontiers-9781405192996","title":"Searching for New Frontiers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSearching For New Frontiers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 ci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Changing Times 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Postwar Hollywood and a Changing America 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Hollywood, Hitchcock, and the Postwar Era 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The Vital Center” … Cannot Hold 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostwar Film Production and Exhibition 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Looks at Mothers, Genres, and Style 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Domestic Relations, 1953–1967: Bachelor Pads,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNervous Dads, and Marriages on the Rocks 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBachelor Pads 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNervous Dads (and Moms) 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarriages on the Rocks 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelcoming The Graduate 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Negotiating the Civil Rights Movement: Message Movies, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Rise of Sidney Poitier 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt’s a Sin 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn American Story 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoitier, ’67 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The New Hollywood, Vietnam, and the Schism 111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeekend 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Art Cinema and Counter]Culture: Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day’s Night, Blow Up, Bonnie and Clyde, and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeneral Ripper Exceeds His Authority 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeet the Beatles (and the New European Cinema) 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuiet Enigma in Swinging London 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“We Rob Banks” 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda: “Battleship Potemkin Calling the Searchers” 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Nowhere to Run: One-Eyed Jacks, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, A Fistful of Dollars, and The Wild Bunch 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Myth and the Classical Western 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCalifornia – or Maybe Oregon 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Who Was Tom Doniphon?” 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo Name, Sudden Impact 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Those Days Are Closing Fast” 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDestroying and Saving the Village 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The War: From The Longest Day to The Green Berets 191\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The Good War” Refought and Rethought 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnconventional Warfare 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArt of War 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Only War We’ve Got 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Far Out:2001: A Space Odyssey and Easy Rider 225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Infinite 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarketing and Reception 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Hell’s Angels to Easy Riders 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey Blew It, But … 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 275\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529339150679,"sku":"9781405192996","price":68.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405192996.jpg?v=1731875235","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/searching-for-new-frontiers-9781405192996","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}