Description
| Product ID: | 9781800737235 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Transactions with the World |
| Subtitle: | Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood |
| Authors: | Author: Adam O’Brien |
| Page Count: | 228 |
| Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, The environment, The environment, USA, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood†films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded†cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history. In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-10-13 |
