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oapen-20.500.12657-440182021-01-25T13:51:08Z Transactions with the World O’Brien, Adam Performing Arts Film History & Criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism 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. 2020-12-15T14:17:07Z 2020-12-15T14:17:07Z 2016 book 9781789204681 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44018 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Berghahn Books Berghahn Books 104142 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781789204681 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Berghahn Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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