Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s
by Ethan Mordden
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With authority, and wit, Ethan Mordden explores American film and filmmakers in a crucial decade, the 1960s--the decade in which the way Hollywood made movies and the way audiences perceived them were transformed--showing readers how film reflected, rather than gilded everyday life. 60 photographs.Tags
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ABVR Harris does an in-depth look at the production of five movies from the very end of the Sixties; Mordden gives a broad survey of the changes in Hollywood that led up to them.
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Ethan Mordden is the author of Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Everything's Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s, and One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s
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- Original publication date
- 1990
- Dedication
- To Robert Gottlieb, with thanks
- First words
- The camera pans the city skyline, objective, remote, lipping the office towers as a non-smoker demonstrates the ingestion of cigarette smoke.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Blink! and the era is over.
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