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Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance, 1967-1976
By Glenn Man
236 pages
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- Greenwood Press
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- Westport, CT
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- 1994
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Synopsis
Radical Visions discusses an important period in American film history: Films such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, and Taxi Driver challenged the narrative structure and style of the classical Hollywood paradigm, transformed its conventional genres, exploded traditional American myths, and foregrounded a consciousness of the cinematic process. Film students, scholars, and aficionados will gain insight into generic conventions and narrative style ...
Radical Visions discusses an important period in American film history: Films such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, and Taxi Driver challenged the narrative structure and style of the classical Hollywood paradigm, transformed its conventional genres, exploded traditional American myths, and foregrounded a consciousness of the cinematic process. Film students, scholars, and aficionados will gain insight into generic conventions and narrative style presented within the cultural attitudes of the time.
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Table of contents
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- Recent Titles In Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture ii
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- 1. 1967-1968, the Wonder Year, Part I: Bonnie and Clyde 7
- 2. 1967-1968, the Wonder Year, Part II: the Graduate and 2001 33
- 3. Westerns in Modern Dress: The Wild Bunch and Mccabe And Mrs. Miller 69
- 4. Counterculture: Midnight Cowboy, Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge, American Graffiti, Lenny 97
- Conclusion 118
- 5. Gangsters and Private Eyes: The Godfather Films and Chinatown 121
- 6. Apocalypse: Nashville and Taxi Driver 149
- Epilogue 175
- Notes 181
- Works Cited 193
- Recent Titles In Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture ii
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- 1. 1967-1968, the Wonder Year, Part I: Bonnie and Clyde 7
- 2. 1967-1968, the Wonder Year, Part II: the Graduate and 2001 33
- 3. Westerns in Modern Dress: The Wild Bunch and Mccabe And Mrs. Miller 69
- 4. Counterculture: Midnight Cowboy, Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge, American Graffiti, Lenny 97
- Conclusion 118
- 5. Gangsters and Private Eyes: The Godfather Films and Chinatown 121
- 6. Apocalypse: Nashville and Taxi Driver 149
- Epilogue 175
- Notes 181
- Works Cited 193
- Filmography (arranged By Chronology) 201
- Index 209
- About the Author 217