Description
Book SynopsisThe New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history.
The Limits of Auteurism challenges many of these assumptions. The book explores how distribution and critical reception determined the parameters of the New Hollywood canon.
Trade Review"
The Limits of Auteurism is a completely new interpretation of the New Hollywood as a period and as an industrial/aesthetic phenomenon. Godfrey's scholarship is very nearly exhaustive, and his writing exquisite and cogently organized." -- David Cook * author of Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 *
"Godfrey moves with skill between the landmarks of New Hollywood, plotting novel routes, excursions and detours in order to give us a masterly and compelling guide to the era’s films." -- Peter Stanfield * author of Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972 *
"For those who are interested in the New Hollywood period and American cinema, this is a book that contributes usefully to the body of scholarship on this fertile time. One of its strengths is the way in which it balances its academic preoccupations with general accessibility, facilitated through writing that elucidates rather than obscures. Godfrey’s panoramic view of cinematic creation – from production conditions, to textual features, to historical reference, to critical reception – importantly places his analysis in a broad context, ensuring that there are no reasons to question his thoroughness." * Film Matters *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: open roads
Which new Hollywood?
Easy rider
Variations on a theme: five easy riders
Five easy pieces
Two-lane blacktop
Vanishing point
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Adam at 6 a.m
Politicizing genre. Dirty Harry
The French connection
The limits of auteurism. The last movie
The hired hand
Conclusion: the end of the road
