Star Actors In The Hollywood Renaissance Representing Rough Rebels

Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance: Representing Rough Rebels serves as a corrective supplement to the extant, director-centric history of American cinema's most lauded period. In contrast to star studies that showcase disparate performances, this book focuses on a specific time and place -- Hollywood in the crucible, formative years from 1968 through 1971 -- and offers close analysis of star actors' deterministic influences over nine of the era's most hallowed films. By examining film reviews and 'star press' from the national magazines whose covers they then dominated, Smith-Rowsey ...