Farber Stephen Farber, McClellan Michael McClellan

Cinema '62 (eBook, PDF)

The Greatest Year at the Movies

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Produktbeschreibung

Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and more.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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978808850
• Artikelnr.: 72474898

Autorenporträt

Stephen Farber was president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association from 2012-2016 and currently serves as a faculty member at UCLA, teaching film criticism. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Hollywood Reporter. He has also published several books, including Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case (1988) and Hollywood on the Couch (1993).   Michael McClellan is the former Senior Vice President/Head Film Buyer for Landmark Theatres and served on the board of appeals of the Classification and Ratings Administration of the MPAA.  He currently co-produces a classic film series in Los Angeles. Bill Condon won an Academy Award for his screenplay of Gods and Monsters in 1998.  He received a screenwriting nomination for the Oscar-winning best picture of 2002, Chicago.  His other credits as director include Kinsey, Dreamgirls, Mr. Holmes, Beauty and the Beast, and The Good Liar.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Bill Condon
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1     Overseas Explosion
2     New American Auteurs
3     Survivors: Con Men and Hollywood Honchos
4     Grande Dames and a Box-Office Queen
5     Calling Dr. Freud
6     Adapted for the Screen: Prestige and Provocation
7     Black and White to Technicolor
8     The New Frontier
9     Sexual and Social Outlaws
10   Crowning Achievement
Epilogue
Appendix A:  Other Films of 1962
Appendix B:  Accolades and Box Office for 1962
Notes
Bibliography
Index