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Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s Book

Making Waves The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). In Hollywood, the genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s and 50s - musicals, Westerns, melodramas - were losing their appeal and their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young, the discriminating, the politically conscious and the sexually emancipated. Making Waves, Revised and Expanded is ...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    For many countries, the 1960s saw a new wave of filmmaking. This volume offers a survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context. The 1960s was famously the decade of sex...

  • Foyles

    The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rocknroll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the ...

  • 1623565081
  • 9781623565084
  • Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
  • 15 August 2013
  • Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • Revised and expanded ed
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