Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance Representing Rough Rebels [Hardcover]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic everymen, and exerted a powerful, and until now unexplored, influence over a movement often considered the richest in Hollywood's history.1. How to Represent a Rough Rebel 2. Dustin Hoffman: The Artistic Star 3. Jack Nicholson: The Realistic Romantic 4. Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote 5. Conclusion Endnotes BibliographyDaniel Smith-Rowsey teaches cinema at Sacramento Sate University, USA. His feature film Fish Chips and Mushy Peas debuted at the Awareness Festival in 2012. His essays have been published in Bright Lights Film Journal, Jura Gentium, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, and various collections.