Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey
Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s

The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of...
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Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s

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Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s

BD$87.88
Author: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). It was a decade in which the avantgarde came out of the closet and into the street, expressing itself on album covers and posters as much as in galleries. And it was a decade in which the old popular art - crooners and show bands, Hollywood musicals and melodramas - seemed destined to be swept away by the tide of novelty emerging across the world.

The cinema was central to this atmosphere of cultural ferment. Hollywood was in decline, both artistically and commercially. The genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s and 50s - musicals, Westerns, melodramas - were losing their appeal and their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young, the discriminating, the politically conscious and the sexually emancipated. The innovative features of the new cinemas were not the same everywhere. Common to most of them, however, were a political and aesthetic radicalism and a break with the traditions of studio filmmaking and its cult of perfect illusion.

Making Waves, Revised and Expanded is a sharp, focused, and brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context - capturing the distinctiveness of a decade which was great for the cinema and for the world at large. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith pays particular attention to a handful of the most remarkable talents (Godard, Antonioni, Oshima) that emerged during the period and helped to make it so special.

Author: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 06/20/2013
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781623565084

About the Author

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London.




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