Camera And Action

by Bapis, Elaine M.

• ISBN13: 9780786433414
• ISBN10: 0786433418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

This study examines the changes in the American film industry, audiences, and feature films between 1965 and 1975. With transformations in production codes, adjustments in national narratives, a rise in independent filmmaking, and a new generation of directors and producers addressing controversial issues on the mainstream screen, film was a major influence on the social changes that defined these years. After a contextual history of film during this era, several key films are discussed, including The Graduate, Alice's Restaurant, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Little Big Man, and The Godfather series. The author describes how these films represented a generation, constructed and deconstructed American culture, and made important contributions during ten years of great change in America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Preface	p. 1
Introduction: For the Love of Film	p. 3
Industry and Audiences
As Hollywood Turned: Expansion, Exhibition, Codes, and Directors at Mid-Decade	p. 15
A New Audience for the Now Movie: Film Societies, the College Campus, the American Film Institute and Making Film Art	p. 27
Generation
The Graduate: Representing a Generation	p. 41
Alice's Restaurant: Constructing Hippie Folk and Legitimizing Revolutionary Distinction	p. 61
Back in the Saddle Again: Men, Westerns, Hippies, and Easy Rider	p. 78
Gender
Under the Influence: Representing Masculinity in Midnight Cowboy	p. 99
No Icon Left Unturned: M*A*S*H and the Project of Antiestablishment	p. 114
Out of the Saddle, into the Seventies: Gender in McCabe and Mrs. Miller	p. 128
What's Sex Got to Do with It? Carnal Knowledge and the Delusion of Telling It Like It Is	p. 145
Ethnicity
Forever Native: Penn's New Authentics in Little Big Man	p. 163
The Godfather Films as America	p. 178
Conclusion: Cinematic Anarchists Go Generic	p. 204
Chapter Notes	p. 213
Selected Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 253
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