- Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: Taschen GmbH; Ill edition (26 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3822821918
- ISBN-13: 978-3822821916
- Product Dimensions: 25.3 x 20.1 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 513,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 Bertolucci'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.
140 A-Z film entries include:
- Synopsis
- Film stills and production photos
- Cast/crew listings
- Box office figures
- Trivia
- Useful information on technical stuff
- Actor and director bios
140 A-Z film entries include:
- Synopsis
- Film stills and production photos
- Cast/crew listings
- Box office figures
- Trivia
- Useful information on technical stuff
- Actor and director bios
Plus: a complete Academy Awards list for the decade
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A brilliant and beautiful book and a bargain.
But also very dangerous - buy this book and will end up buying more DVDs of classic 70s films from Amazon than you can afford just to see if the authors are right about how good the films and generally they are!
What no Mean Streets, Blazing Saddles, Wicker Man, or Carry On At Your Convenience though! These films are 70s classics and should be in there. And what about Mutiny On The Buses, I hear you cry, that isn't in there either!!!
Otherwise a perfect book. Highly recommended.
But also very dangerous - buy this book and will end up buying more DVDs of classic 70s films from Amazon than you can afford just to see if the authors are right about how good the films and generally they are!
What no Mean Streets, Blazing Saddles, Wicker Man, or Carry On At Your Convenience though! These films are 70s classics and should be in there. And what about Mutiny On The Buses, I hear you cry, that isn't in there either!!!
Otherwise a perfect book. Highly recommended.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Publishers Taschen - sometimes described as king of the "coffee table" book producers - prove themselves once again with a further instalment in their "Movies of the..." series.
Whilst their graphically-orientated slabs of cinematic heritage may not contain academically-pitched textual dissections on film-making theory in practice, the content never fails to interest and is sufficiently well-written to actually distract one from idly using the tome as a glorified pictorial "flickbook"!
Naturally, opinion is a subjective thing; and one person's choice of the good and the great from a given era may not coincide with all. That being said, the book has enough of a wide selection to please everybody with an interest in the cinema - and in particular the sometimes genre-defining output that stemmed from the decade.
Anyone looking for a more in-depth textual (as opposed to pictorial in content) breakdown of the stories from behind-the-scenes in Hollywood film-making of the 70's and the studio shenanigans that spawned directors such as Coppola, Scorcese, Fonda, Beatty and (unfortunately..!) Lucas and Spielberg, should be directed to the similarly excellent novel "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind.
Back to this Taschen tome though - a highly recommended purchase!
This book, as with all Taschen's output, excels itself with its standards of printing and design quality and is glorious to behold! (...and no, I don't work for the company - sadly!!)
Simply put... buy it , enjoy it for its content, and marvel at the bargain you've picked up - particularly at the Amazon discount price!
I bet you'll buy the rest of the series....!
Whilst their graphically-orientated slabs of cinematic heritage may not contain academically-pitched textual dissections on film-making theory in practice, the content never fails to interest and is sufficiently well-written to actually distract one from idly using the tome as a glorified pictorial "flickbook"!
Naturally, opinion is a subjective thing; and one person's choice of the good and the great from a given era may not coincide with all. That being said, the book has enough of a wide selection to please everybody with an interest in the cinema - and in particular the sometimes genre-defining output that stemmed from the decade.
Anyone looking for a more in-depth textual (as opposed to pictorial in content) breakdown of the stories from behind-the-scenes in Hollywood film-making of the 70's and the studio shenanigans that spawned directors such as Coppola, Scorcese, Fonda, Beatty and (unfortunately..!) Lucas and Spielberg, should be directed to the similarly excellent novel "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind.
Back to this Taschen tome though - a highly recommended purchase!
This book, as with all Taschen's output, excels itself with its standards of printing and design quality and is glorious to behold! (...and no, I don't work for the company - sadly!!)
Simply put... buy it , enjoy it for its content, and marvel at the bargain you've picked up - particularly at the Amazon discount price!
I bet you'll buy the rest of the series....!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
really nice book, excellent photos/stills. I was a present for my husband, and he was thrilled, its from a series 60s & 80s too...excellent present for any movie buff
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