The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever

by Vincent LoBrutto

Overview

A fascinating year-by-year history of American film in the seventies, a decade filled with innovations that reinvented the medium and showed that movies can be more than entertainment.

In The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever, Vincent LoBrutto tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic Hollywood studio system to a new generation of filmmakers who made personal movies targeting a younger audience. He covers in kaleidoscopic detail the breadth of American cinema during the 1970s, with analyses of the movies, biographical sketches of the filmmakers, and an examination of the innovative production methods that together illustrate why the seventies were unique in American film history.

Featuring iconic filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola and films such The Godfather, Jaws, Taxi Driver, and The Exorcist, this book reveals how the seventies challenged the old guard in groundbreaking and exciting ways, ushering in a new Hollywood era whose impact is still seen in American film today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538137185
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/12/2021
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Vincent LoBrutto was an instructor of editing and film history at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for three decades. He is the author of numerous books on filmmaking, including Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking, Martin Scorsese: A Biography, and Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. LoBrutto is the recipient of the Robert Wise Award for Journalistic Illumination of the Art of Editing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction

1. How Old Hollywood Became New Hollywood

2. 1970

3. 1971

4. 1972

5. 1973

6. 1974

7. 1975

8. 1976

9. 1977

10. 1978

11. 1979

12. 1980 to 1987

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Vincent LoBrutto has devoted his life to film. That devotion shines through on every page of this, a book itself devoted to a decade that changed cinema forever.

David Marchese

Both a who's who of the film industry in a decade that changed American cinema forever and a personal recollection of the films that changed the author's life, The Seventies by Vincent LoBrutto is an enjoyable and informative read for those who have a passion for films. It made me want to go and (re)watch the revolutionary masterpieces, looking back on a lost time when films mattered and challenged art, culture, and society.

Filippo Ulivieri

LoBrutto tells readers on the opening page that he and his wife have gone “to every movie [they] could possibly see” since the 1970s. This volume confirms that claim with its nonstop flow of fascinating details about hundreds of American films, their casts, and their crews from 1970 through 1979—one year per chapter.

Choice Reviews

Vincent LoBrutto is a one-man library of the American cinema. The author of definitive oral histories of key creative personnel, director biographies, and film studies textbooks sinks his formidable teeth into what is probably Hollywood's greatest unsung decade of artistic and commercial film-making.

Patrick McGilligan

LoBrutto tells readers on the opening page that he and his wife have gone “to every movie [they] could possibly see” since the 1970s. This volume confirms that claim with its nonstop flow of fascinating details about hundreds of American films, their casts, and their crews from 1970 through 1979—one year per chapter.

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