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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lewis, Jon (1955-....)
Titre(s) : Road trip to nowhere [Texte imprimé] : Hollywood encounters the counterculture / Jon Lewis
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Description matérielle : xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index
"By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the 'sixties' counterculture
had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with
a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit
of going to the movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten-year span (from 1967-1976)
rife with uneasy encounters between artists caught up in the counterculture and a
corporate establishment still clinging to a studio system on the brink of collapse.
Out of this tumultuous period many among the young and talented walked away from celebrity,
turning down the best job Hollywood (and America) had on offer: movie star. Road Trip
to Nowhere elaborates a primary-sourced history of movie production culture, examining
the lives of a number of talented actors who got wrapped up in the politics and lifestyles
of the counterculture. Thoroughly put off by celebrity culture, actors like Dennis
Hopper, Christopher Jones, Jean Seberg, and others rejected the aspirational backstory
and inevitable material trappings of success, much to the chagrin of the studios and
directors who backed them. In Road Trip to Nowhere, distinguished film historian Jon
Lewis details dramatic encounters on movie sets and in corporate boardrooms, on the
job and on the streets, and in doing so offers an entertaining and rigorous historical
account of an out-of-touch Hollywood establishment and the counterculture workforce
they would never come to understand"
Sujet(s) : Acteurs de cinéma -- Los Angeles (Calif., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Studios de cinéma -- Los Angeles (Calif., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Contre-culture -- Los Angeles (Calif., États-Unis)
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 979494 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - États-Unis - Los Angeles
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520343733. - ISBN 0520343735. - ISBN 9780520343740. - ISBN 0520343743. -
ISBN 9780520975132 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47101828f
Notice n° :
FRBNF47101828
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Road trips to a new Hollywood : Easy rider and Zabriskie Point ;
Christopher Jones does not want to be a movie star ; Four women in Hollywood : Jean
Seberg, Jane Fonda, Dolores Hart, and Barbara Loden ; Charles Manson's Hollywood
; Epilogue.
