The Films of Hal Ashby Contributor(s): Beach, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814334156 ISBN-13: 9780814334157 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $28.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Analyzes the films and filmmaking career of director Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Individual Director |
Dewey: 791.430 |
LCCN: 2009004088 |
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.32" W x 8.86" (0.76 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Hal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Though he was a member of the same generation of filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, Ashby has received comparatively little critical or scholarly validation for his work. Author Christopher Beach argues that despite his lower profile, Ashby was an exceptionally versatile and unusually creative director. Beach focuses primarily on Ashby's first seven films-The Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being There-to analyze Ashby's contributions to filmmaking culture in the 1970s. The Films of Hal Ashby is based on Beach's extensive use of unpublished archival materials, as well as a number of interviews with actors, directors, producers, cinematographers, and others involved in the making of Ashby's films. This volume will interest film and television scholars, as well as readers interested in filmmakers of the 1970s. |