The limits of auteurism : case studies in the critically constructed New Hollywood / Nicholas Godfrey New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Call No: 11339Author: Godfrey, Nicholas Edition: 2018Place: New BrunswickPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 2018PhysDes: xii, 270 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: AUTEUR THEORY ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; FIVE EASY PIECES (US, Bob Rafelson, 1970) ; TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971) ; VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971) ; LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSY (US, Sydney J. Furie, 1970) ; ADAM AT SIX AM (US, Robert Scheerer, 1970) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971) ; LAST MOVIE, THE (US, Dennis Hopper, 1971) ; HIRED HAND, THE (US, Peter Fonda, 1971) Summary: The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions. Beginning with the commercial success of Easy Rider in 1969, and ending two years later with the critical and commercial failure of that film’s twin progeny, The Last Movie and The Hired Hand, Nicholas Godfrey surveys a key moment that defined the subsequent aesthetic parameters of American commercial art cinema.
The book explores the role that contemporary critics played in determining how the movies of this period were understood and how, in turn, strategies of distribution influenced critical responses and dictated the conditions of entry into the rapidly codifying New Hollywood canon. Focusing on a small number of industrially significant films, this new history advances our understanding of this important moment of transition from Classical to contemporary modes of production. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780813589145
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Lost highways : an illustrated history of road movies / edited by Jack Sargeant and Stephanie Watson London: Creation, 1999.
Call No: 754.11 SARAuthor: Sargeant, Jack ; Watson, Stephanie Place: LondonPublisher: CreationPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Creation cinema collection ; 15Subject: ROAD MOVIES ; WESTERNS ; MOTORCYCLE FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; VAMPIRE FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; Wenders, Wim ; LYNCH, DAVID ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972) ; ALICE IN DEN STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1973) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977) ; BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; BUTTERFLY KISS (UK, Michael Winterbottom, 1995) ; CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974) ; CRASH (CN, David Cronenberg, 1996) ; DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; EL TOPO (MX, Alexando Jodorowsky, 1971) ; FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (US, Robert Rodriquez, 1996) ; GALLIVANT (UK, Andrew Kotting, 1996) ; GUN CRAZY (US, Joseph H. Lewis, 1949) ; I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (US, Howard Hawks, 1949) ; KALIFORNIA (US, Dominic Sena, 1993) ; IM LAUF DER ZEIT (GW, Wim Wenders, 1976) ; KISS OR KILL (AT, Bill Bennett, 1997) ; HEAVEN'S BURNING (AT, Craig Lahiff, 1997) ; JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963) ; LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999) ; MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943) ; NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994) ; NEAR DARK (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987) ; NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955) ; F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949) ; TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (US, Beeban Kidron, 1995) ; TRUE ROMANCE (US, Tony Scott, 1993) ; TWO LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971) ; JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES (US, John Carpenter, 1998) ; VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971) ; WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971) ; WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) ; WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990) ; WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969) ; HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ISBN: 1871592682(pbk.) : ª14.95LON: 20894332
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Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you : A shadow cinema of the American '70s / Charles Taylor New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Call No: 721.210.4(73) TAYAuthor: Taylor, Charles Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 2017PhysDes: 199 pages ; 22 cm.Subject: VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971) ; HICKEY AND BOGGS (US, Robert Culp, 1972) ; TWO LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971) ; COFFY (US, Jack Hill, 1973) ; FOXX, JAMIE ; ULZANA'S RAID (US, Robert Aldrich, 1972) ; AMERICAN HOT WAX (US, Floyd Mutrux, 1978) ; HARD TIMES (US, Walter Hill, 1975) ; CITIZEN'S BAND (US, Jonathan Demme, 1977) ; WINTER KILLS (US, Bill Richert, 1979) ; EYES OF LAURA MARS (US, Irvin Kershner, 1978) ; BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (MX/US, Sam Peckinpah, 1974) Summary: When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch . . . but the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the secrets of the times."
Celebrated film critic Taylor pays homage to the trucker vigilantes, meat magnate pimps, blaxploitation "angel avengers," and taciturn factory workers of grungy, unartful B films such as Prime Cut, Foxy Brown, and Eyes of Laura Mars. He creates a compelling argument for what matters in moviemaking and brings a pivotal American era vividly to life in all its gritty, melancholy complexity." - Book jacketISBN: 9781632868183Contents: Prevues of coming attractions -- On the hoof, on the barrel: Prime Cut -- The challenger: Vanishing Point -- Farewell to the first golden era: Cisco Pike -- Bebop/ silence: Hickey & Boggs -- Shut down, volume 2: Two-land Blacktop -- A queen without a throne: Coffy and Foxy Brown -- White man's burden: Ulzana's Raid -- Aloha and good night, two by Floyd Mutrux: Aloha, Bobby and Rose and American Hot Wax -- Stranger in town: Hard Times -- E pluribus loonum: Citizens Band -- The goosing of the President: Winter Kills -- Eye of the beholders: Eyes of Laura Mars -- Even the losers: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- When the lights go upID2: 343
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Road movies / Mark Williams New York: Proteus Publishing Co., 1982.
Call No: 754.11 WILAuthor: Williams, Mark Place: New YorkPublisher: Proteus Publishing Co.PubDate: 1982PhysDes: 127 p. : ill. ; 27 cmSubject: ROAD MOVIES ; BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977) ; BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; CAR, THE (US, Elliott Silverstein, 1977) ; CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974) ; DRIVER, THE (US, Walter Hill, 1978) ; DUEL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1972) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; LAST AMERICAN HERO, THE (US, Lamont Johnson, 1973) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; ROAD MOVIE (US, Joseph Strick, 1973) ; SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974) ; SALAIRE DE LA PEUR, LE (FR/IT, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) ; THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (US, Michael Cimino, 1974) ; TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971) ; VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971) ; WILD ANGELS, THE (US, Roger Corman, 1966) ISBN: 0862760542LON: abn89130147; 6396315
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