So I went to Madison on a fishing expedition, and in the papers of filmmaker Dore Schary, I reeled in a whopper.ĢSchary was a liberal Jew with a history of progressive activism and a reputation for making "message pictures." Upon taking over as RKO's vice president in charge of production in early 1947, one of the first movies Schary greenlighted was Crossfire-a film noir about the murder of a Jew by a bigoted ex-GI. Though I had decided already, as a way of narrowing the field, to focus on crime fiction that became film noir, my list of prospects was still impossibly long, and I hoped that archival research might help me narrow the topic further. At that point, I had a rather vague notion that I would write on the process of adapting novels to film. As I was beginning my dissertation research, I took a trip to the State Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin. Successful films of the early New Hollywood era include Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, The Wild Bunch, and Easy Rider while films that failed at the box office such as New York, New York, Sorcerer, Heaven's Gate, They All Laughed and One from the Heart marked the end of the era.E-mail citation PDF version Introduction Discovering Crossfire: Texts and ContextsġThis project grew out of my lifelong passion for novels and movies (especially crime fiction and film noir), a commitment to progressive politics past and present, and a critical moment of archival serendipity. After the demise of the studio system and the rise of television, the commercial success of films was diminished. The films made in this movement are stylistically characterized in that their narrative often deviated from classical norms. The span of the period is also a subject of debate, as well as its integrity, as some authors, such as Thomas Schatz, argue that the New Hollywood consists of several different movements. The definition of "New Hollywood" varies, depending on the author, with some defining it as a movement and others as a period. Quick facts: Years active, Country, Influences, Influenced.
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