Hollywood and the Baby Boom

A Social History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvJames Russell,Jim Whalley

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Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them. At each stage of its life-cycle, the baby boom’s great size has dictated the terms of national policy and public debate. While aspects of this history are well-documented, the relationship between the baby boom and Hollywood has never been explored. And yet, for almost 40 years, baby boomers made up the majority of Hollywood’s audience, and since the 1970s, boomers have dominated movie production. Hollywood and the Baby Boom weaves together interviews with leading filmmakers, archival research and the memories of hundreds of ordinary filmgoers to tell the full story of Hollywood’s relationship with the boomers for the first time. The authors demonstrate the profound influence of the boomers on the ways that movies were made, seen and understood since the 1950s. The result is a compelling new account that draws upon an unprecedented range of sources, and offers new insights into the history of American movies.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-28
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt625 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501331497

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James Russell is Principal Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK. His last book was The Historical Epic and Contemporary Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2007). His short writing has appeared in Cinema Journal, the Journal of American Studies, the Guardian and numerous edited collections. Jim Whalley is an independent scholar based in the UK. He writes on American cinema history, and is the author of Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy and American Culture (2010). His short writing has also appeared in The New Review of Film and Television Studies.

List of ImagesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1. ChildhoodChapter One:Hollywood and the Baby Boom in the 1950sChapter Two: Watching MoviesChapter Three: On the ScreenPart 2: YouthChapter Four: A Changing AudienceChapter Five: Movies and Youth RevoltChapter Six: Towards the Modern BlockbusterPart 3: SuccessChapter Seven: Boomer FilmmakersChapter Eight: Popular Genres and Popular MoviesPart 4: MaturityChapter Nine: Mature MoviesChapter Ten: Families ForeverPart 5: LegacyChapter Eleven: Franchise HollywoodConclusion. A LegacyAppendix A: The SurveyAppendix B:MPAA Age DemographicsBibliography

Drawing on a unique blend of primary sources (archival records, trade press reports, interviews with filmmakers and an online audience survey as well as a large number of films), this groundbreaking study offers a fresh account of the development of mainstream American cinema since the Second World War. Hollywood and the Baby Boom focuses on the impact, on cinemagoing and film production, of dramatically increased birth rates in the United States between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. The complex interaction between film industry strategies and generational turnover both in the audience and among Hollywood personnel is vividly brought to life by looking closely at some of the creative personnel shaping movies and at the experiences of a wide range of viewers. Thus, this engagingly written book has a lot to say about the important role that movies have played, and continue to play, in the lives of American baby boomers.