The Other Hollywood Renaissance by Lennard, Dominic; Palmer, R. Barton; Pomerance, Murray;

Short description:

This book provides a revisionist account of the Hollywood Renaissance period by discussing (and thus memorialising) 24 directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period.

Long description:

In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influenced by the international art cinema. Reflecting a new self-consciousness in the US about the national film patrimony, this period is known as the Hollywood Renaissance. However, critical study of the period is generally associated with its so-called principal auteurs, slighting a number of established and emerging directors who were responsible for many of the era’s most innovative and artistically successful releases.
With contributions from leading film scholars, this book provides a revisionist account of this creative resurgence by discussing and memorializing twenty-four directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period. Including filmmakers such as Hal Ashby, John Frankenheimer, Mike Nichols, and Joan Micklin Silver, this more expansive approach to the auteurism of the late 1960s and 1970s seems not only appropriate but pressing — a necessary element of the re-evaluation of 'Hollywood' with which cinema studies has been preoccupied under the challenges posed by the emergence and flourishing of new media.

Table of Contents:

List of contributors

Introduction, R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance

1. Hal Ashby, Gentle Giant Brenda Austin-Smith

2. Remaking Gender in the Early Films of Peter BogdanovichDouglas McFarland

3. In Extremis: John Boorman’s Cinema of DislocationIna Rae Hark

4. John Cassavetes: In Your Face and Off the GridRebecca Bell-Metereau

5. “Let Me Love You”: Ambiguous Masculinity in Michael Cimino’s MelodramasI-Lien Tsay

6. De Palma’s Embattled Red Period: Hitchcock, Gender, Genre, and PostmodernismLinda Badley

7. Escape from Escapism: Bob Fosse and the Hollywood RenaissanceDennis Bingham

8. The Little Deaths of John FrankenheimerDaniel Varndell

9. William Friedkin: Frayed ConnectionsDominic Lennard

10. Sidney Lumet and the New HollywoodDavid Desser

11. Terrence Malick’s Emergent Lyricism in Badlands and Days of HeavenRick Warner

12. Elaine May: Subverting Machismo “Step by Tiny Step” Kyle Stevens

13. Paul Mazursky: The New Hollywood’s Forgotten ManLester D. Friedman

14. New Hollywood Crossover: Joan Micklin Silver & the Indie-Studio DivideMaya Montañez Smukler

15. Mike Nichols and the Hollywood Renaissance: A Cinema of Cultural InvestigationNancy Roche

16. “There will be no questions”: 1970s American Cinema as Parallax in Alan J. Pakula’s ‘Paranoia Trilogy’Terence McSweeney

17. Genres of the Modern Mythic in the Films of Sam PeckinpahDaniel Sacco

18. Bob Rafelson’s Ambivalent AuthorshipVincent Longo19. We’ve Never Danced: Alan Rudolph’s Welcome to L.A. and Remember My NameSteven Rybin

20. Jerry Schatzberg’s Downfall Portraits: His Cinema of LonelinessR. Barton Palmer

21. Inside John Schlesinger OutsideMurray Pomerance

22. Fire and Ice: Paul SchraderConstantine Verevis

23. Peter Yates: On Location in the New HollywoodJonathan Kirshner