Other Hollywood Renaissance

'The Other Hollywood Renaissance is an extraordinary volume which testifies to the incredible richness of 1970s cinema. These 23 concise, eloquent and keenly insightful auteurist essays, expertly assembled, recover and re-examine the considerable achievements of a wide array of directors, ranging from the highly esteemed and well-known (Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols and Terrence Malick) to the highly neglected (John Boorman, Elaine May and Alan Rudolph). Like the best critics, these authors compel us to watch the films anew with a fresh appreciation of their directors' work.'
Matthew Bernstein, Emory College

In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influenced by the international art cinema. Reflecting a new self-consciousness in the US about the national film patrimony, this period is known as the Hollywood Renaissance. However, critical study of the period is generally associated with its so-called principal auteurs, slighting a number of established and emerging directors who were responsible for many of the era's most innovative and artistically successful releases.

With contributions from leading film scholars, this book provides a revisionist account of this creative resurgence by discussing and memorializing twenty-four directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period. Including filmmakers such as Hal Ashby, John Frankenheimer, Mike Nichols, and Joan Micklin Silver, this more expansive approach to the auteurism of the late 1960s and 1970s seems not only appropriate but pressing - a necessary element of the re-evaluation of 'Hollywood' with which cinema studies has been preoccupied under the challenges posed by the emergence and flourishing of new media.

Dominic Lennard is a Teaching Fellow in the Pre-Degree Programs at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film (2014) and Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies (2019).
R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor emeritus at Clemson University, where he founded the World Cinema program. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books on film and literary subjects from various academic presses, including, both with Homer Pettey, Film Noir and International Film Noir (EUP, 2016).
Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto. He is the author of Virtuoso: Screen Performance and the Actor's Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please (EUP, 2018), amongst many others.

Cover image: Serpico (1973) Directed by Sidney Lumet Shown: Al Pacino © Paramount Pictures/Photofest

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List of contents

List of contributors

Introduction, R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance

1. Hal Ashby, Gentle Giant
Brenda Austin-Smith

2. Remaking Gender in the Early Films of Peter Bogdanovich
Douglas McFarland

3. In Extremis: John Boorman's Cinema of Dislocation
Ina Rae Hark

4. John Cassavetes: In Your Face and Off the Grid
Rebecca Bell-Metereau

5. "Let Me Love You": Ambiguous Masculinity in Michael Cimino's Melodramas
I-Lien Tsay

6. De Palma's Embattled Red Period: Hitchcock, Gender, Genre, and Postmodernism
Linda Badley

7. Escape from Escapism: Bob Fosse and the Hollywood Renaissance
Dennis Bingham

8. The Little Deaths of John Frankenheimer
Daniel Varndell

9. William Friedkin: Frayed Connections
Dominic Lennard

10. Sidney Lumet and the New Hollywood
David Desser

11. Terrence Malick's Emergent Lyricism in Badlands and Days of Heaven
Rick Warner

12. Elaine May: Subverting Machismo "Step by Tiny Step"
Kyle Stevens

13. Paul Mazursky: The New Hollywood's Forgotten Man
Lester D. Friedman

14. New Hollywood Crossover: Joan Micklin Silver & the Indie-Studio Divide
Maya Montañez Smukler

15. Mike Nichols and the Hollywood Renaissance: A Cinema of Cultural Investigation
Nancy Roche

16. "There will be no questions": 1970s American Cinema as Parallax in Alan J. Pakula's 'Paranoia Trilogy'
Terence McSweeney

17. Genres of the Modern Mythic in the Films of Sam Peckinpah
Daniel Sacco

18. Bob Rafelson's Ambivalent Authorship
Vincent Longo
19. We've Never Danced: Alan Rudolph's Welcome to L.A. and Remember My Name
Steven Rybin

20. Jerry Schatzberg's Downfall Portraits: His Cinema of Loneliness
R. Barton Palmer

21. Inside John Schlesinger Outside
Murray Pomerance

22. Fire and Ice: Paul Schrader
Constantine Verevis

23. Peter Yates: On Location in the New Hollywood
Jonathan Kirshner

About the author

Dominic Lennard is a Teaching Fellow in the Pre-degree Programs at the University of Tasmania. He is the
author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film (SUNY Press, 2014) and Brute
Force: Animal Horror Movies (SUNY, 2019).R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he directs the film studies program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011).Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto. He is the author of many books including The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI, 2016), A King of Infinite Space (Oberon, 2017) and Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (Rutgers, 2016).

Summary

This book provides a revisionist account of the Hollywood Renaissance period by discussing (and thus memorialising) 24 directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Palmer Lennard, LENNARD DOMINIC
• Assisted by: Dominic Lennard (Editor), R Barton Palmer (Editor), R. Barton Palmer (Editor), Murray Pomerance (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781474442640
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-4264-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Traditions in American Cinema
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet