Hollywood renaissance
revisiting American cinema's most celebrated era

"A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in American film history"--

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): the commercial and regulatory impact of the first American art film / Justin Wyatt -- The film editors who invented the Hollywood Renaissance: Ralph Rosenblum, Sam O'Steen, and Dede Allen's Bonnie and Clyde / Warren Buckland -- "I smell money!" class product, The graduate, and the corporatisation of embassy / Anthony Mckenna -- "A triumph of aura over appearance": Barbra Streisand, Funny girl (1968) and the Hollywood Renaissance / Peter Krämer -- The auteurist special effects film: Kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey (1968) and the "single-generation look" / Julie Turnock -- "About as brutal, relevant and exploitable as they come": medium cool and political filmmaking / Oliver Gruner -- From exploitation to legitimacy: Easy rider (1969) and independent cinema's journey into Hollywood / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Hollywood trade: Midnight cowboy (1969) and underground cinema / Gary Needham -- Zabriskie point (1970), Michelangelo Antonioni and European directors in Hollywood / Melis Behlil -- Becoming Hal Ashby: intersectional politics, the "Hollywood Renaissance" and Harold and Maude (1971) / Philip Drake -- A matter of race and gender: Lady sings the blues (1972) and the Hollywood Renaissance canon / Charlene Regester -- De Niro and Scorsese: director-actor collaboration in Mean streets (1973) and the Hollywood Renaissance / R. Colin Tait -- Coppola's The conversation (1974) and Walter Murch's Sound worlds / Frederick Wasser