Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
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AlbakiReads Editorial Five films at Hollywood’s turning point
Five films at Hollywood’s turning point
Mark Harris uses the production histories of Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and Doctor Doolittle to examine a mid-1960s shift in American filmmaking. The book sets their making against a studio system still profiting from established genres and large-scale musicals, even as audience tastes changed sharply. By tracing how these contrasting projects reached the screen, it frames the 1968 Oscar season as a revealing crossroads: one where creative careers, studio fortunes, and assumptions about what Hollywood could make were being reshaped. The emphasis is on the industry pressures and cultural changes surrounding the films, as well as the transformation signaled by their different paths.
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- Film-history readers interested in the transition to New Hollywood
- Fans of the five films discussed
- Readers interested in the business and cultural context of 1960s American cinema
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New HollywoodStudio system change1960s American cinemaAudience tastesFilm production
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Book Overview One of The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time "Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I've ever...
One of The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time
"Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I've ever read in my life." --Quentin Tarantino
The New York Times bestseller that follows the making of five films at a pivotal time in Hollywood history
In the mid-1960s, westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals like Mary Poppins swept the box office. The Hollywood studio system was astonishingly lucrative for the few who dominated the business. That is, until the tastes of American moviegoers radically- and unexpectedly-changed. By the Oscar ceremonies of 1968, a cultural revolution had hit Hollywood with the force of a tsunami, and films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and box-office bomb Doctor Doolittle signaled a change in Hollywood-and America. And as an entire industry changed and struggled, careers were suddenly made and ruined, studios grew and crumbled, and the landscape of filmmaking was altered beyond all recognition.
"Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I've ever read in my life." --Quentin Tarantino
The New York Times bestseller that follows the making of five films at a pivotal time in Hollywood history
In the mid-1960s, westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals like Mary Poppins swept the box office. The Hollywood studio system was astonishingly lucrative for the few who dominated the business. That is, until the tastes of American moviegoers radically- and unexpectedly-changed. By the Oscar ceremonies of 1968, a cultural revolution had hit Hollywood with the force of a tsunami, and films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and box-office bomb Doctor Doolittle signaled a change in Hollywood-and America. And as an entire industry changed and struggled, careers were suddenly made and ruined, studios grew and crumbled, and the landscape of filmmaking was altered beyond all recognition.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 512 | Language: English | Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP | ISBN: 0143115030
FormatPaperback
Pages512
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0143115030
EAN9780143115038
PublisherPENGUIN GROUP
Publication Date2009-02-01
EditionReprint
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.0 Pounds
Length8.4 Inches
Width5.5 Inches
Height1.2 Inches
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