Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s

by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Book Overview

The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). It was a decade in which the avantgarde came out of the closet and into the street, expressing itself on album covers and posters as much as in galleries. And it was a decade...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623565081
• ISBN13: 9781623565084
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"