Dirty Real - Exile on Hollywood and Vine With the Gin Mill Cowboys

"This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty real. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson, and Sam Peckinpah, among others, drew on a nostalgia for the gutter and donned bohemian personae, pulling on soiled shirts and scuffed boots to better counter the glamour and phoniness of Tinseltown. With great care for the historical record and displaying a refined critical acuity, Peter Stanfield captures that pivotal moment when Hollywood tried to sell a begrimed vision of itself to the world."--

About the author

Peter Stanfield is Emeritus Professor of Film at the University of Kent. His publications include A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk and Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock ’n’ Roll, both published by Reaktion Books.

Summary

How Easy Rider inspired a gritty Hollywood era of self-styled actors and filmmakers

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stanfield, Stanfield Peter
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2024
• EAN: 9781789148626
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-862-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Hollywood, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism