- Gebundene Ausgabe: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: New Pr (24. Oktober 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1565847636
- ISBN-13: 978-1565847637
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,9 x 15,9 x 4,1 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.748.568 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In The Magic Hour [BKL Ja 1 & 15 03], Village Voice film critic Hoberman viewed 1990s movies through the lens of the decade's politics. Politics come further to the fore as he juxtaposes the events and the movies of the 1960s. Many of his juxtapositions are obvious--certainly the agendas of The Green Berets and Easy Rider vis-a-vis contemporary events are plain--and most are insightful and revelatory. In 1960, he says, Spartacus and The Alamo symbolized the New Deal and the Cold War; Brando's ineffectual sheriff in The Chase represented the failure of the Great Society; Bonnie and Clyde presaged the counterculture and the end of nonviolence; and the phenomena that soured the era--Vietnam escalation, the Weathermen, and Charlie Manson--are encapsulated in Night of the Living Dead. The events Hoberman chooses are familiar, and his knowledgeable perception of the films makes the book noteworthy as it suggests that, when the outlandish '60s become less comprehensible as they recede in time, the era's movies will remain vital. Gordon Flagg
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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J. Hoberman, senior film critic for "The Village Voice", argues that in 1960s cinema, the distinction between political figures and glamorous movie stars disintegrated. Here, he reinterprets key Hollywood movies ("Dr Strangelove", "Bonnie and Clyde", "The Wild Bunch" and "Shampoo", among others) to find the latent politics of 60s cinema and to offer a history of the era's political culture. With often comic meditations on the decade's movies, as well as its personae - with Che Guevara, JFK and Ronald Reagan considered alongside John Wayne, Jane Fonda and Dirty Harry - Hoberman describes how our mass-mediated politics entered the realm of the fantastic, converting feared radicals into media heroes and vice-versa.
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Magical Mystery Tour of the Sixties
24. November 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is a wonderful book (I devoured it over a weekend). It examines the relationship between American social and political life and the movies during the turbulent decade of the Sixties, although the book actually covers films well into the Seventies. The book argues that this relationship was a two-way street, with the movies being influenced by what was happening in society, but also that the movies influenced politics and society. For example, Hoberman asserts that Kennedy's fascination with James Bond and secret agents and Nixon's obsession with the movie Patton to some extent influenced the style and substance of their presidencies. Another overarching theme of the book is how the Western, that most American of movie genres, evolved almost beyond recognition through the course of the Sixties and early Seventies (from The Alamo to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid).
Among the films prominently covered in the book are Blowup, Spartacus, The Manchurian Candidate, Bonnie & Clyde, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch, and Dirty Harry, but the book also discusses more obscure films such as Tell Them Willie Boy is Here and Wild in the Streets. That most quintessential of all Sixties films, Woodstock, is oddly absent from the book.
A couple of quibbles: Hoberman quotes Norman Mailer far too often and it would have been nice to have a true bibliography rather than having to rummage through the source notes. That aside, I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in either the social history or films of the Sixties--you will not be disappointed!
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Excellent book about 50s-70s movies and culture
26. Januar 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is a great book. It touches on an almost dizzying number of milestones, from the fifties TV show ''The Next Voice You Hear'' to Brian De Palma's movie ''Blow Out.''
The point of the book, if there is one that can be easily summarized, is that political and cultural events (especially films) first became genuinely inseparable during the 1960s (not dissimilar to the points that Marshall McLuhan made in ''Understanding Media'' and Daniel Boorstin made in ''The Image: or What Happened to the American Dream'' while history was happening; but, as Hoberman points out, that history could not have been fully understood by those prophets in the midst of it).
This is a masterfully rendered cultural history. Hoberman's style can get breathless at times, and there are a lot of films and events to keep up with, but the narrative (and the analysis) are involving, cogent, and thoughtful. Think ''The Dirty Dozen,'' ''Easy Rider,'' ''Bonnie & Clyde,'' ''Blow Up,'' ''The Wild Bunch,'' ''Shampoo'' (and songs like ''The Ballad of the Green Berets''): they're all here, along with the cultural context that they fed into and the ''dream life'' that they helped construct.
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A fine history evolves which uses the film world as a reflection of cultural change
5. Oktober 2005
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Here's a new cultural history of the Sixties - through the eye of the camera as it considers the social and political impact of movies and theater of the times. Using key Hollywood productions from Shampoo to Bonnie and Clyde, senior film critic at the Village Voice Hoberman provides a lively reconstruction of the politics behind the films, examining with actors and subjects with a critic's eye for detail. A fine history evolves which uses the film world as a reflection of cultural change.
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