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challenging perspectives
cinema
classical to contemporary
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commercial cinema
confident
contemporary critics
creative control
critical responses
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different origins
directing
director choices
directorial ambition
Easy Rider
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era
film theory
filmmaking
filmology
French connections
french terminology
Hollywood
importance of director
intricate ideas
introducing new concepts
limited
motion picture
movies
new
new history
new themes
old era
outside the box
politicizing genre
primary author
production
romantized
significant films
strategies
style choices
stylistic boldness
subjective
The Hired Hand
The Last Movie
thematic complexity
time period
twentieth century
understanding movies
Product details
- ISBN 9780813589145
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2018
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
NICHOLAS GODFREY is a lecturer in Screen and Media at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.
