Transactions with the World
Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
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2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-000-1 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-000-1 (ISBN)
One of the less explored dimensions of the "New Hollywood" canon of the 1960s and 1970s has been its profound environmental sensibility. This engaging study examines how a number of factors made the era such a vividly "grounded" cinematic moment.
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.
Adam O’Brien teaches film studies at the universities of Bristol and Reading. He has published articles on ecocriticism and film in a number of journals, including Film Criticism, Journal of Media Practice, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue: A Typical Love Scene
Introduction
Chapter 1. Four Faces of New Hollywood
Chapter 2. Resisting Abstraction
Chapter 3. Rooting In and Lighting Out: New Hollywood and Genre
Chapter 4. Regional Frames
Chapter 5. Conditions, Technologies and Presence
Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Mr. Meek
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.2.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-000-4 / 1785330004 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-000-1 / 9781785330001 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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