Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood - Softcover

Harris, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143115030 ISBN 13: 9780143115038

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2009

Synopsis

The New York Times bestseller that follows the making of five films at a pivotal time in Hollywood history

In the mid-1960s, westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals like Mary Poppins swept the box office. The Hollywood studio system was astonishingly lucrative for the few who dominated the business. That is, until the tastes of American moviegoers radically- and unexpectedly-changed. By the Oscar ceremonies of 1968, a cultural revolution had hit Hollywood with the force of a tsunami, and films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and box-office bomb Doctor Doolittle signaled a change in Hollywood-and America. And as an entire industry changed and struggled, careers were suddenly made and ruined, studios grew and crumbled, and the landscape of filmmaking was altered beyond all recognition.

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Review:

"Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I've ever read in my life."
-Quentin Tarantino

"A rarity in the world of movie literature: A first-rate, broad-gauged (and deliciously readable) cultural history."
-Richard Schickel, Los Angeles Times

"A landmark new film book . . . sifts through the evidence with reportorial acumen and great care, conjuring up the social and cultural history of a lost world and drawing on sharp new interviews with many of its major players. . . . Can take its place alongside top-shelf film industry books."
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Synopsis:

Documents the cultural revolution behind 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films--"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "The Graduate," "Doctor Doolittle," "In the Heat of the Night," and "Bonnie and Clyde"--and how they reflected beliefs about race, violence, and identity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143115030
• ISBN 13: 9780143115038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512