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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"New Hollywood"”.
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Types in Transition: The Evolution of the Working Man in New Hollywood Cinema
… late 1960s and lasting for around a decade, The New Hollywood era of American cinema represented a significant shift in both filmmaking style and practice. While scholars have traditionally located this break in either industrial or auteurist terms, Types in Transition argues that the …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
<p>New Hollywood was foundationally a debatable period in the course of American film history, with distinctive characteristics of new directorial emergence and innovative film style. However, the contemporary industrial context suggested a prominent power of stardom to effectively sustain the …
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Mike Nichols. Elaine May, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen's "New Cabaret": underground Jewish humor and the evolution of the new Hollywood aesthetic
… the aesthetic and cultural achievements of New Hollywood? This thesis takes the novel approach of interrogating film using close readings that focus on subculture (“milieus”) to better understand how aesthetic innovation can be explained through often overlooked “extra-cultural” experiences. …
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"""Happ'ly-ever-aftering"": Changing social and industry conventions in Hollywood musical adaptations, 1960-75"
This dissertation explores seven Hollywood adaptations of Broadway musicals from the 1960s and early seventies. Though generally considered beyond the “Golden Age” of film, this period produced some of the most enduring and well-loved film musicals of any decade. Furthermore, they can all be seen …
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How Hollywood Stole My Identity: African American Representation in the films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Get Out
… The films will be framed within the history of Hollywood, and then more broadly the social history of race and identity in the United States. The thesis is broken down into three chapters. The first chapter concerns the concept of identity. The way in which African American identity has often …
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A renewable reserve army of villains: Nostalgia and memory of the communist other in American Cold War cinema
… Drawing on previous work on Cold War cinema, Hollywood’s production of films that engage with the subject is periodized according to the central chapters of the conflict as well as the main stages of development of the Hollywood film industry. Analysis of films from the “propaganda cycle” of …
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The Representation of the Outlaw Biker in California, 1953-1969: Film, Counterculture and Commodity
… with the biker lifestyle. A key addition to the New Hollywood cinematic movement, the film questioned the authoritative system by having the main characters killed by those who hold outdated values. The Wild One began the visual and cultural journey of the biker, by creating the leather-clad …