{"product_id":"cinema-62-the-greatest-year-at-the-movies-9781978808829","title":"Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies","description":"\u003cp\u003eLawrence of Arabia  The Miracle Worker  To Kill a Mockingbird  The Manchurian Candidate  Gypsy  Sweet Bird of Youth  The Longest Day  The Music Man  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane  and more. Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a pallid era  a downtime between the heights of the classic studio system and the rise of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese and Altman in the 1970s. It seemed to be a moment when the movie industry was floundering as the popularity of television caused a downturn in cinema attendance. Cinema 62 challenges these assumptions by making the bold claim that 1962 was a peak year for film  with a high standard of quality that has not been equaled since.  Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan show how 1962 saw great late-period work by classic Hollywood directors like John Ford  Howard Hawks  and John Huston  as well as stars like Bette Davis  James Stewart  Katharine Hepburn  and Barbara Stanwyck. Yet it was also a seminal year for talented young directors like Sidney Lumet  Sam Peckinpah  and Stanley Kubrick  not to mention rising stars like Warren Beatty  Jane Fonda  Robert Redford  Peter OToole  and Omar Sharif. Above all  1962the year of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Manchurian Candidategave cinema attendees the kinds of adult  artistic  and uncompromising visions they would never see on television  including classics from Fellini  Bergman  and Kurosawa. Culminating in an analysis of the years Best Picture winner and top-grossing film  Lawrence of Arabia  and the factors that made that magnificent epic possible  Cinema 62 makes a strong case that the movies peaked in the Kennedy era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652356825141,"sku":"ByrdShop_1978808828","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781978808829.jpg?v=1781851272","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cinema-62-the-greatest-year-at-the-movies-9781978808829","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}