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Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
Adam O´brien
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Description for Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
Hardback. One of the less explored dimensions of the "New Hollywood" canon of the 1960s and 1970s has been its profound environmental sensibility. This engaging study examines how a number of factors made the era such a vividly "grounded" cinematic moment. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APFA; RN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 488.
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the New Hollywood films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly grounded cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it ... Read more
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the New Hollywood films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly grounded cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
487 g
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785330001
SKU
V9781785330001
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About Adam O´brien
Adam O'Brien teaches film studies at the universities of Bristol and Reading. He has published articles on ecocriticism and film in a number of journals, including Film Criticism, Journal of Media Practice, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
Reviews for Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
This valuable work engages fully with the field of cinema studies and demonstrates ways of building on traditional film theory from an ecocritical perspective. The author speaks the language of film aesthetics, provides sophisticated analyses that go beyond cursory readings of plot and narrative, and directly engages with film technology and its impact on textual meaning. Stephen A. Rust, ... Read more