The Films of Hal Ashby

by Christopher Beach

Analyzes the films and filmmaking career of director Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s.

Hal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Though he was a member of the same generation of filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, Ashby has received comparatively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334156
• ISBN13: 9780814334157
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"