Making waves : new cinemas of the 1960s

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Making waves : new cinemas of the 1960s

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Bloomsbury, 2013

Rev. and expanded ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and indexes

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The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). In Hollywood, the genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s and 50s - musicals, Westerns, melodramas - were losing their appeal and their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young, the discriminating, the politically conscious and the sexually emancipated. Making Waves, Revised and Expanded is a sharp, focused, and brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context - capturing the distinctiveness of a decade which was great for the cinema and for the world at large. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith pays particular attention to a handful of the most remarkable talents (Godard, Antonioni, Oshima) that emerged during the period and helped to make it so special. Nowell-Smith updates his classic text with a focus on 1960s Japan and the burgeoning New York scene.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements A Note on Names and Film Titles Preface to the 2013 Edition Introduction: What Were the Sixties? Part I: Before the Revolution 1. World Cinema in the 1950s 2. Criticism and Culture Part II: The New Cinemas 3. New Cinemas, New Politics 4. Sex and Censorship 5. Outside the Studio 6. Documentary, Cinema Verite, and the 'New American Cinema' 7. Technological Innovations: Colour, Wide Screen, the Zoom Lens 8. Narrative 9. New Cinemas, National Cinemas Part III: Movements 10. Britain: From Kitchen Sink to Swinging London 11. France: From Nouvelle Vague to May '68 12. Italy 13. From Polish School to Czech New Wave and Beyond 14. Latin America Part IV: Four Auteurs 15. Young Godard 16. Antonioni 17. Pasolini 18. Oshima Conclusion Fifty Films Bibliography Index of Film Titles Index

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