The Other Hollywood Renaissance

By Dominic Lennard (editor), R. Barton Palmer (editor), Murray Pomerance (editor)

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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…

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The 1970s were a second ‘Golden Age’ for Hollywood cinema, but many creative individuals from this time remain marginalized. Their names are unfamiliar, and their films are unseen. 

This new collection of essays edited by Lennard, Palmer, and Pomerance combines canonical directors (De Palma, Lumet, Ashby, Peckinpah) with more neglected figures whose work won’t be easy to find on Netflix: Elaine May, Paul Mazursky, Joan Micklin Silver, Bob Rafelson…

During cinema’s current craze for pre-sold sequels, franchises, biopics, and 1980s nostalgia, a look back at the 1970s reminds us of how fresh and original (if not always profitable) Hollywood could…

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