Seventies

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781538137185
  • Weight: 494g
  • Dimensions: 162 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 12 May 2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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A fascinating year-by-year history of American film in the seventies, a decade filled with innovations that reinvented the medium and showed that movies can be more than entertainment.

In The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever, Vincent LoBrutto tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic Hollywood studio system to a new generation of filmmakers who made personal movies targeting a younger audience. He covers in kaleidoscopic detail the breadth of American cinema during the 1970s, with analyses of the movies, biographical sketches of the filmmakers, and an examination of the innovative production methods that together illustrate why the seventies were unique in American film history.

Featuring iconic filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola and films such The Godfather, Jaws, Taxi Driver, and The Exorcist, this book reveals how the seventies challenged the old guard in groundbreaking and exciting ways, ushering in a new Hollywood era whose impact is still seen in American film today.

Vincent LoBrutto was an instructor of editing and film history at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for three decades. He is the author of numerous books on filmmaking, including Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking, Martin Scorsese: A Biography, and Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. LoBrutto is the recipient of the Robert Wise Award for Journalistic Illumination of the Art of Editing.

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