Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture

by Jeff Menne

Book Overview

The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist Cinema, Jeff Menne rewrites the history of this period, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231183704
• ISBN13: 9780231183703
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"