The Seventies

The Decade That Changed American Film Forever

The Seventies
Vincent LoBrutto
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12 Jul 2021 US
9781538137185
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A fascinating year-by-year history of American film in the seventies, a decade filled with innovations that reinvented the medium and showed that movies can be more than entertainment. In The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever, Vincent LoBrutto tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic Hollywood studio system to a new generation of filmmakers who made personal movies targeting a younger audience. He covers in kaleidoscopic detail the breadth of American cinema during the 1970s, with analyses of the movies, biographical sketches of the filmmakers, and an examination of the innovative production methods that together illustrate why the seventies were unique in American film history. Featuring iconic filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola and films such The Godfather, Jaws, Taxi Driver, and The Exorcist, this book reveals how the seventies challenged the old guard in groundbreaking and exciting ways, ushering in a new Hollywood era whose impact is still seen in American film today.
Film buff LoBrutto takes a revealing look at the cinematic movement that grew out of the turbulent 1970s. He presents a detailed analysis of the film world year by year, starting with "a long string of failures" of big budget films in the ' 60s that indicated the "Golden Age of Hollywood" was over. From this came a vanguard of young, innovative directors who subverted the "beauty and glamour" of the first half of 20th-century film and created complex movies that treated the medium more like art, reacting to the fraught political and social climate caused by the war in Vietnam. These films "were unflinching in their approach to difficult content," LoBrutto writes, and yielded a more realistic, if sometimes somber, style, bringing to the fore such talents as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese and encompasing cult classic movies like The Exorcist (1973), Chinatown (1974), and Taxi Driver (1976). Charting the rise of stars including Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, and Jane Fonda, LoBrutto leaves no stone unturned in making his case. Movie geeks won' t be disappointed. --Publishers Weekly The 1970s have long been heralded as one of the greatest eras of American filmmaking, and countless books have been written about films and figures of the period such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, John Cassavetes, and Steven Spielberg. LoBrutto' s contribution is a highly detailed narrative breakdown of the major films and players of the decade, in a year-by-year format. --Library Journal Both a who' s who of the film industry in a decade that changed American cinema forever and a personal recollection of the films that changed the author' s life, The Seventies by Vincent LoBrutto is an enjoyable and informative read for those who have a passion for films. It made me want to go and (re)watch the revolutionary masterpieces, looking back on a lost time when films mattered and challenged art, culture, and society. --Filippo Ulivieri, author of "Stanley Kubrick and Me" and "2001 between Kubrick and Clarke" Vincent LoBrutto is a one-man library of the American cinema. The author of definitive oral histories of key creative personnel, director biographies, and film studies textbooks sinks his formidable teeth into what is probably Hollywood' s greatest unsung decade of artistic and commercial film-making. --Patrick McGilligan, author of "Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light" Vincent LoBrutto has devoted his life to film. That devotion shines through on every page of this, a book itself devoted to a decade that changed cinema forever. --David Marchese, staff writer, New York Times Magazine
Vincent LoBrutto is the author of four books on filmmaking, including Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers and Sound on Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound. His articles have appeared in American Cinematographer and Films in Review. He teaches in the film, video, and animation department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and lives in Mount Vernon, New York.
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ISBN-13: 9781538137185
Published: 12 Jul 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardback
Height: 238mm
Width: 162mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 494g
Pages: 248

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