The Hollywood Renaissance

Peter Krämer is a Senior Fellow in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author and editor of eight academic books, among them The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars (2005) and the BFI Film Classic on 2001: A Space Odyssey (2010). Yannis Tzioumakis is Reader in Film and Media Industries at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of four books, most recently of American Independent Cinema: An Introduction, 2nd edition (2017) and co-editor of four collections of essays, most recently of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics (2016).

List of Contributors
Introduction (Peter Krämer, University of East Anglia, UK; and Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool, UK)

1. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): The Commercial and Regulatory Impact of the First American Art Film, Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA)

2. The Film Editors who Invented the Hollywood Renaissance: Ralph Rosenblum, Sam O’Steen, and Dede Allen’s Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

3. ‘I smell money!’ Class Product, The Graduate, and the Corporatisation of Embassy, Anthony McKenna (Shanghai Jiatong University, China)

4. ‘A Triumph of Aura over Appearance’: Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl (1968) and the Hollywood Renaissance, Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, UK)

5. The Auteurist Special Effects Film: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the ‘Single-Generation Look’, Julie Turnock (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA)

6. ‘About as Brutal, Relevant and Exploitable as They Come’: Medium Cool and Political Filmmaking, Oliver Gruner (University of Portsmouth, UK)

7. From Exploitation to Legitimacy: Easy Rider (1969) and Independent Cinema’s Journey into Hollywood, Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool)

8. Hollywood Trade: Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Underground Cinema, Gary Needham (University of Liverpool, UK)

9. Zabriskie Point (1970), Michelangelo Antonioni and European Directors in Hollywood, Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University, Turkey)

10. Becoming Hal Ashby: Intersectional Politics, the ‘Hollywood Renaissance’ and Harold and Maude (1971), Philip Drake (Edge Hill University, UK)

11. A Matter of Race and Gender: Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the Hollywood Renaissance Canon, Charlene Regester (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)

12. De Niro and Scorsese: Director-Actor Collaboration in Mean Streets (1973) and the Hollywood Renaissance, R. Colin Tait (Texas Christian University, USA)

13. Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Walter Murch's Sound Worlds, Frederick Wasser (CUNY, Brooklyn College, USA)

Index