Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America

by Jonathan Kirshner

Book Overview

Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801451345
• ISBN13: 9780801451348
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher