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Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

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Environmental StudiesFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1785330004
ISBN13: 9781785330001
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Feb 1 2016
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
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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