{"product_id":"when-the-movies-mattered-9781501736094","title":"When the Movies Mattered","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhen the Movies Mattered \u003c\/i\u003eJonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit the unique era in American cinema that was New Hollywood. Ten eminent contributors, some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood movement as it unfolded across the 1960s and 1970s, assess the convergence of film-industry developments and momentous social and political changes that created a new type of commercial film that reflected those revolutionary influences in American life. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEven as New Hollywood first took shape, film industry insiders and commentators alike realized its significance. At the time, Pauline Kael compared the New Hollywood to the tangled, bitter flowering of American letters in the 1850s and David Thomson dubbed the era the decade when movies mattered. Thomson''s words provide the impetus for this volume in which a cohort of seasoned film critics and scholars who came of age watching the movies of this era reflect upon and reconsider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that's what makes \"Mattered\" such a fascinating read. This set of random pieces actually reveal how — for one shining moment — the losers ran Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Houston Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMovie connoisseurs and film students, especially those who relish the pictures of the New Hollywood era, should add this admirable volume to their library\u003c\/p\u003e * Midwest Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA superb anthology, a volume whose nostalgia for the New Hollywood is refreshingly clear-eyed rather than rose-tinted, and no less infectious for it.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The New Hollywood Revisited\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Mad Housewives of the Neo-Woman's Film:\u003cbr\u003e The Age of Ambivalence Revisited\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMolly Haskell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Antonioni's America: \u003ci\u003eBlow-Up, Zabriskie Point\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e and the Making of a New Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJon Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Jason's No Businessman... I Think He's an Artist\":\u003cbr\u003e BBS and the New Hollywood Dream\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan Kirshner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Robert Altman: Documentaries, Dreamscapes,\u003cbr\u003e and Dialogic Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Sterritt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. City of Losers, Losing City: Pacino, New York, and\u003cbr\u003e the New Hollywood Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeather Hendershot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Parallax View: Why Trust Anyone?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Thomson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Cinematic Tone in Polanski's \u003ci\u003eChinatown\u003c\/i\u003e: Can \"Life\"\u003cbr\u003e Itself Be \"False\"?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Pippin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"I Don't Know What to Do with My Hands\":\u003cbr\u003e John Cassavetes's\u003ci\u003e The Killing of a Chinese Bookie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge Kouvaros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Spirit of '76: Travis,\u003ci\u003e Rocky\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jimmy Carter\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Hoberman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda: What \"Golden Age\"? A Dissenting Opinion\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Time Line—the New Hollywood Years\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409336148311,"sku":"9781501736094","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501736094.jpg?v=1730506465","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-the-movies-mattered-9781501736094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}