When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited

by Jonathan Kirshner

Book Overview

In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit the unique era in American cinema that was New Hollywood. Ten eminent contributors, some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood movement as it unfolded across the 1960s and 1970s, assess the convergence of film-industry developments and momentous social and political changes that created a new type of commercial film that reflected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501736108
• ISBN13: 9781501736100
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher