LEADER 04133nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910963526303321 005 20240417232300.0 010 $a9780814335420 010 $a081433542X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048132 035 $a(OCoLC)755621700 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10499891 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565064 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380305 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565064 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528517 035 $a(PQKB)10252532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11063 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416385 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10499891 035 $a(OCoLC)923510174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31349211 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31349211 035 $a(Perlego)4160540 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048132 100 $a20090130d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe films of Hal Ashby /$fChristopher Beach 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary approaches to film and television series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780814334157 311 08$a0814334156 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 320 $aFilmography: p. [173]-179. 327 $aHal Ashby: new Hollywood auteur -- Hollywood maverick: Ashby, the new Hollywood, and the 1970s -- On the road to find out: The landlord and Harold and Maude -- Once I was a soldier: visions of the military in The last detail and Coming home -- I like to watch: Shampoo and Being there -- There's something happening here: music in Ashby's films -- A director under the influence: Ashby's final decade. 330 8 $aAnalyzes the films and filmmaking career of director Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s. Hal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Though he was a member of the same generation of filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, Ashby has received comparatively little critical or scholarly validation for his work. Author Christopher Beach argues that despite his lower profile, Ashby was an exceptionally versatile and unusually creative director. Beach focuses primarily on Ashby's first seven films-The Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being There-to analyze Ashby's contributions to filmmaking culture in the 1970s. The first two chapters of this volume provide an overview of Ashby's filmmaking career, as Beach makes the case for Ashby's status as an auteur and provides a biographical survey of Ashby's most productive and successful decade, the 1970s. In the following chapters, Beach analyzes groups of films to uncover important thematic concerns in Ashby's work, including the treatment of a young male protagonist in The Landlord and Harold and Maude, the representation of the U.S. military in The Last Detail and Coming Home, and the role of television and mass media in Shampoo and Being There. Beach also examines the crucial role of the musical score in Ashby's films, as well as the rapid decline of the director's career after Being There. The Films of Hal Ashby is based on Beach's extensive use of unpublished archival materials, as well as a number of interviews with actors, directors, producers, cinematographers, and others involved in the making of Ashby's films. This volume will interest film and television scholars, as well as readers interested in filmmakers of the 1970s. 410 0$aContemporary approaches to film and television series. 676 $a791.4302/33092 700 $aBeach$b Christopher$0573538 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963526303321 996 $aThe films of Hal Ashby$94358850 997 $aUNINA