Revolution! : the explosion of world cinema in the sixties / Peter Cowie.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Faber and Faber, 2004.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0571209033
- 9780571209033
- 0571211356
- 9780571211357
- 791.43/09/046 22
- PN1993.5.A1 C77 2004
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From across the world young film-makers emerged from nowhere to challenge the dreary conformity of the 50s and flout the taboos (both sexual and political) of their age. The foot-soldiers in this revolution included Godard, Truffaut, Pasolini and Bertolucci, Oshima and Forman and Polanski and Cassavetes. Peter Cowie was in the thick of this cultural foment, not least when some of these firebrands shut down the Cannes film festival in the heady May of 1969. This title recaptures the cultural mood of the 60s through numerous interviews with key film-making talents of the time.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index.
Filmographies: pages 259-266.
Once upon a time in the fifties -- Cin�ephiles to Cin�eastes: France in transition -- The realist's eye -- The big new wave -- Burying 'Papa's Cinema' -- Towards a fresh aesthetic -- Commitment comes in from the cold -- 1968 and all that ... -- Aftermath: the impact on Hollywood -- The long goodbye.
"The 1920s may have been more significant in formative terms; other times have been more profitable for movies as an industry. But the period 1958-89 saw a brilliant explosion of talent not just in Europe but throughout the world. From France and Italy to India and Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia to North and South America, young film-makers sprang from nowhere to challenge the drear conformity of the fifties and flout the abiding taboos, both sexual and political, of their age. The vanguard of this revolution included Godard and Truffaut, Pasolini and Bertoluoci, Oshima and Rocha, Polanski and Cassavetes."--Jacket.