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Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. The film industry gradually redirected its energies, resulting in a distinctive break from traditional business and stylistic practice and emergence of a new "cinema of sensation." Feature films became faster-paced and more graphic, the antihero took his place alongside the classic Hollywood hero, and "downer" films like 'Midnight Cowboy 'proved as popular as those with upbeat fare. Paul Monaco gives a sweeping view of this exhilarating decade, ranging from the visceral sensation of 'Bonnie and Clyde, 'to the comic-book satire of 'Dr. Strangelove, 'to the youthful alienation of 'The Graduate. '

Film --- anno 1960-1969 --- United States --- Motion picture industry --- Motion pictures --- History --- History. --- Motion picture industry - United States - History --- Motion pictures - United States - History --- United States of America

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Quand il arrive à Hollywood, Ernst Lubitsch est déjà un cinéaste prestigieux. L'aura dont il jouit et la diversité des fonctions qu'il occupe lui permettent d'y mener une action hors du commun.En observant la manière dont il travaille au sein de cet environnement particulier, Katalin Pór revient sur ses relations avec les structures de production hollywoodiennes. Comment parvient-il, au sein même de cette organisation hyper-normalisée, à imposer ses propres conceptions du travail créatif ? Ses interactions avec les différents studios peuvent être lues comme autant d'efforts pour lui permettre de travailler dans une relative autonomie, sur des projets qui l'intéressent, avec des collaborateurs librement choisis, et selon ses propres méthodes.Quel est l'apport de Lubitsch au cinéma hollywoodien ? Il y conçoit et réalise des films, évidemment, mais opère également des recrutements, fait acheter des répertoires de pièces, transforme le fonctionnement de certains studios... Son action hollywoodienne peut être assimilée à une véritable politique, d'une grande cohérence, guidée par deux questionnements poétiques fondamentaux : sur la nature de la comédie, d'une part, et l'articulation entre musique et cinéma, de l'autre.Voici le portrait d'un " Lubitsch au travail ", à la fois artiste et homme de pouvoir, à Hollywood.

Lubitsch, Ernst --- Critique et interprétation --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Motion picture industry --- Motion pictures --- History --- Lubitsch, Ernst, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Motion picture producers and directors - United States - Biography --- Motion picture industry - United States - History - 20th century

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Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars-Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them-Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era's celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Anderson looks at motion picture stars who embodied various forms of deviance-narcotic addiction, criminality, sexual perversion, and racial indeterminacy. He considers how the studios profited from popularizing ideas about deviance, and how the debates generated by the early Hollywood scandals continue to affect our notions of personality, sexuality, and public morals.

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As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their place in mainstream society, and expand their new but tenuous hold on American popular culture. Peter Decherney explores how these needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture. Formed during Hollywood's Golden Age (1915-1960), this unlikely partnership ultimately insured prominent places in American culture for both the movie industry and elite cultural institutions. It redefined Hollywood as an ideal American industry; it made movies an art form instead of simply entertainment for the masses; and it made moviegoing a vital civic institution. For their part, museums and universities used films to maintain their position as quintessential American institutions. As the book delves into the ties between Hollywood bigwigs and various cultural leaders, an intriguing cast of characters emerges, including the poet Vachel Lindsay, film producers Adolph Zukor and Joseph Kennedy, Hollywood flak and censor extraordinaire Will Hays, and philanthropist turned politician Nelson Rockefeller. Decherney considers how Columbia University's film studies program helped integrate Jewish students into American culture while also professionalizing screenwriting. He examines MoMA's career-savvy film curator Iris Barry, a British feminist once dedicated to stemming the tide of U.S. cultural imperialism, who ultimately worked with Hollywood and the U.S. government to fight fascism and communism and promote American values abroad. Other chapters explore Vachel Lindsay's progressive vision of movies as reinvigorating the public sphere through film libraries and museums; the promotion of movie connoisseurship at Harvard and other universities; and how the heir of a railroad magnate bankrolled the American avant-garde film movement. Amid ethnic diversity, the rise of mass entertainment, world war, and the global spread of American culture, Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity.

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