Description: A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history.
Brief description: Yannis Tzioumakis is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, University of Liverpool, UK.
Review Quotes:
"Krämer and Tzioumakis present 13 thoughtful, concise essays ... The Hollywood Renaissance adds to previous studies by cogently placing each film within the larger industrial, cultural, and sociopolitical context of US cinema." --CHOICE
"Foregrounding form, style, and content, not only do Tzioumakis and Krämer privilege these themes as the central philosophy at the heart of American cinema's new generation of filmmakers in the 1960s and early '70s (writers, designers and producers as well as directors), they offer us a collection of essays that are formative and stylish in their own right. Assembling some of the best scholars for the task, The Hollywood Renaissance is less an exercise in nostalgic remembrance and much more a persuasive and brilliant updating of the reasons why this coterie of filmmakers, and this era, continues to matter today. Superbly conceived and wonderfully realised throughout every chapter, if you want to know what made the Hollywood Renaissance the creative force it was, and the overriding influence it continues to be, this book has all the answers. Quite simply, Indispensable." --Ian Scott, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Manchester, UK "The Hollywood Renaissance digs deep and goes wide to change dramatically the way we think about this much-studied, legendary period of American filmmaking. Instead of emphasizing the auteurist approach of previous studies, this marvelous volume emphasizes the overlooked element of collaboration among filmmakers in a multi-faceted industrial context that produced landmark titles such as Bonnie and Clyde but also included significant if less-studied films such as Funny Girl and Lady Sings the Blues. The result is a volume full of lively, always enlightening new essays into a celebrated period fifty years on." --Matthew H. Bernstein, Goodrich C. White Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies, Emory University, USA