Making waves

• Verfasst von: Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey
• Titel: Making waves
• Titelzusatz: new cinemas of the 1960s
• Verf.angabe: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
• Ausgabe: Rev. and expanded ed.
• Verlagsort: New York, NY [u.a.]
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Jahr: 2013
• Umfang: XII, 250 S.
• Format: 23 cm
• Fussnoten: Previous edition: New York; London: Continuum, 2008. - Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-508-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Film / (z)Geschichte 1960-1969
• Schlagwörter: (s)Nouvelle vague
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: AP 44900
• K10plus-PPN: 1610644018

Abstract

Introduction: what were the sixties? -- Before the revolution. World cinema in the 1950s -- Criticism and culture -- The new cinemas. New cinemas, new politics -- Sex and censorship -- Outside the studio -- Documentary, cinema verite, and the "new American cinema" -- Technological innovations: colour, wide screen, the zoom lens -- Narrative -- New cinemas, national cinemas -- Movements. Britain: from kitchen sink to swinging London -- France: from nouvelle vague to May '68 -- Italy -- From Polish School to Czech New Wave and beyond -- Latin America -- Four auteurs. Young Godard -- Antonioni -- Pasolini -- Oshima -- Conclusion. 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. 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.