The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). It…
For many countries, the 1960s saw a new wave of filmmaking. This volume offers a survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context.
The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). It…
For many countries, the 1960s saw a new wave of filmmaking. This volume offers a survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context.
A socio-cultural analysis of French New Wave cinema, with a focus on issues of gender and the construction of sexual identities.
Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence …