Transactions with the World

Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Performing Arts
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Author: Adam O’Brien ISBN: 9781785330018
Publisher: Berghahn Books Publication: February 1, 2016
Imprint: Berghahn Books Language: English
Author: Adam O’Brien
ISBN: 9781785330018
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication: February 1, 2016
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Language: English

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 offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

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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 offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

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