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Farber, Stephen, author.
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Cinema '62 : the gre...
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Cinema '62 : the greatest year at the movies / Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan ; foreword by Bill Condon.
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Farber, Stephen, author.
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781978808829 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1978808828 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Overseas explosion -- New American auteurs -- Survivors: con men and Hollywood honchos -- Grande dames and a box-office queen -- Calling Dr. Freud -- Adapted for the screen: prestige and provocation -- Black and white to technicolor -- The new frontier -- Sexual and social outlaws -- Crowning achievement -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: other films of 1962 -- Appendix B: accolades and box office for 1962.
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"Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a pallid era, a downtime between the heights of the classic studio system and the rise of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese and Altman in the 1970s. It seemed to be a moment when the movie industry was floundering as the popularity of television caused a downturn in cinema attendance. Cinema '62 challenges these assumptions by making the bold claim that 1962 was a peak year for film, with a high standard of quality that has not been equaled since. Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan show how 1962 saw great late-period work by classic Hollywood directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks, and John Huston, as well as stars like Bette Davis, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, and Barbara Stanwyck. Yet it was also a seminal year for talented young directors like Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, and Stanley Kubrick, not to mention rising stars like Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Peter O'Toole, and Omar Sharif. Above all, 1962--the year of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Manchurian Candidate--gave cinema attendees the kinds of adult, artistic, and uncompromising visions they would never see on television, including classics from Fellini, Bergman, and Kurosawa. Culminating in an analysis of the year's Best Picture winner and top-grossing film, Lawrence of Arabia, and the factors that made that magnificent epic possible, Cinema '62 makes a strong case that the movies peaked in the Kennedy era."--
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