Hollywood Film 1963-1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction - Paperback

by Drew Casper (Author)

Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon, covering the period's classics as well as its brilliant but overlooked masterpieces.

• A broad overview and analysis of one of American film's most important and innovative periods
• Offers a new, more expansive take on the accepted canon of the era
• Includes films expressing ideologies contrary to the misremembered leftist slant
• Explores and fully contextualizes the dominant genres of the 60s and 70s

Back Jacket

Hollywood 1963-1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction is a comprehensive study of one of the most tumultuous eras in American film, chronicling the collapse of the studio system, the rise of the auteur, and the birth of the blockbuster. Drew Casper's maximalist review draws wide and varied examples from an expanded canon to discuss technological innovations, changing standards of censorship, and the broad spectrum of ideologies that found their way onto the reel, mirroring the nation's own divided and frequently schizophrenic politics.

Author Biography

Drew Casper is the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Chair of American Film at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Postwar Hollywood, 1946-1962 (Blackwell, 2007), Introduction to Film Reader (2007), Stanley Donen (1983), and Vincente Minnelli and the Film Musical (1977). He has contributed on many DVD commentaries for documentaries of classic and contemporary Hollywood films.