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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hillier, Jim. New Hollywood. New York : Continuum, c1992 (OCoLC)653055134 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Hillier |
| ISBN: | 0826406386 9780826406385 |
| OCLC Number: | 28798312 |
| Description: | 192 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Forty Years of Change: Hollywood from the 1940s to the 1980s -- Towards 2000 -- Starting Out in Exploitation -- Moving Up -- The Bigger Picture -- The Little Picture -- Unequal Opportunities: Women Film-Makers -- Unequal Opportunities: Black Film-Makers. |
| Responsibility: | Jim Hillier. |
Abstract:
The first post-studio directors, the so-called "movie brats" (Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Scorsese, and De Palma) are now famous. Behind them has come a new generation of directors, often controversial, who now make some of Hollywood's most interesting pictures. This book, based on in-depth interviews, looks at the experiences of some thirty of them in getting established and keeping afloat in the new Hollywood. Drawing upon information gathered in interviews more often than quoting directly from them, Jim Hillier has produced an absorbing account from the filmmakers' viewpoint of the business of filmmaking.
Some of the new generation of directors have already had hits such as Terminator (James Cameron), The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), Gremlins (Joe Dante), Sleeping with the Enemy (Joseph Ruben), and Look Who's Talking (Amy Heckerling). Others continue to make inexpensive horror movies. Yet others divide their time between cinema and television, among them Michael Mann, who directed Manhunter for the cinema and produced Miami Vice and Crime Story for television, and David Lynch of Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Twin Peaks.
Among those included are Bill Duke (A Rage in Harlem), Mike Figgis (Internal Affairs), Randa Haines (Children of a Lesser God), Tim Hunter (River's Edge), Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing), Jim McBride (The Big Easy), and Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan). Today, the name Hollywood conjures up not simply tinseltown itself but the whole of the American film industry. The New Hollywood bears witness to the diversity and vigor still remaining in an industry that over the past twenty years has become more dispersed, less rigidly organized - and much more costly. Jim Hillier's book provides the essential background to understanding the economic and creative forces that will carry the American cinema into the 21st century.
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