Movies of the 70s (Bibliotheca Universalis)

Movies of the 70s (Bibliotheca Universalis)

The Birth of the Blockbuster
How the prodigies of the 1970s revolutionized cinema

The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the cold war continued to escalate, Hollywood began to heat up, recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, and The Godfather. Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas, American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon: the blockbuster. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, while the Nouvelle Vague died out in France, its influence extended to Germany, where the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Wenders, and Herzog had its heyday. The sexual revolution made its way to the silver screen (cautiously in the US, more freely in Europe) most notably in Bertolucciâ€™s steamy, scandalous Last Tango in Paris. Amidst all this came a wave of nostalgic films (The Sting, American Graffiti) and Vietnam pictures (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter), the rise of the anti-hero (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman), and the prestigious short-lived genre, blaxploitation.

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Country USA
Brand Taschen
Manufacturer TASCHEN
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber YES35179676
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783836561167
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Taschen
Manufacturer	TASCHEN
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	YES35179676
UnitCount	1
EANs	9783836561167
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Movies of the 70s (Bibliotheca Universalis)

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