American Graffiti
George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation
de Peter Kramer
Moyenne des votes :
0 | vote | ![]() |
0 | vote | ![]() |
0 | vote | ![]() |
0 | vote | ![]() |
Votre vote : -
Description de l'ouvrage:
Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop, became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States, and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia wave washing over the country in the 1970s.
American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation explores the origins and development of the film, its form and themes as well as its marketing, reception, audiences and impact. It does so by considering the life and career of the film’s co-writer and director George Lucas; the development and impact of the baby boom generation to which he, many of his collaborators and the vast majority of the film’s audience belonged; the transformation of the American film industry in the late 1960s and 1970s; and broader changes in American society which gave rise to an intense sense of crisis and growing pessimism across the population.
This book is ideal for students, scholars and those with an interest in youth cinema, the New Hollywood and George Lucas as well as both Film and American Studies more broadly.
À propos de l'auteur :
Peter Krämer is a Senior Research Fellow in Cinema and TV at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the author or editor of 11 academic books, mainly about American film history and Hollywood’s global dimensions.
Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Routledge
Voir la fiche de American Graffiti (1973) sur le site IMDB ...
> Du même auteur :
United Artists (2020)
de Peter Kramer, Gary Needham, Yannis Tzioumakis et Tino Balio
Sujet : Studio > United Artists
Dr. Strangelove (2014)
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
de Peter Kramer
Sujet : One Film > Dr. Strangelove
The New Hollywood (2006)
From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars
de Peter Kramer
Sujet : Countries > United States
> Sur un thème proche :
Women and New Hollywood (2023)
Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema
Dir. Aaron Hunter et Martha Shearer
Sujet : Countries > United States
The Other Hollywood Renaissance (2020)
Dir. Dominic Lennard, R. Barton Palmer et Murray Pomerance
Sujet : Countries > United States
The Last Great American Picture Show (2004)
New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
Dir. Thomas Elsaesser, Noel King et Alexander Horwath
Sujet : Countries > United States
Postmodern Auteurs (1991)
Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Spielberg and Scorsese
Sujet : Director > Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas
Road Trip to Nowhere (2022)
Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture
de Jon Lewis
Sujet : History of Cinema
It Don't Worry Me (2004)
Nashville, Jaws, Star Wars and Beyond
de Ryan Gilbey
Sujet : Countries > United States