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- Title
- 'At least a witness to myself' : on watching The American Dreamer after learning of the death of Dennis Hopper
- Related
- Studies in documentary film, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2010), p.109-118
- DOI
- 10.1386/sdf.4.2.109_1
- Publisher
- Intellect Publishing
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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200500 Literary Studies
190400 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Author/Creator
- King, Noel
- Description
- This article explores the circumstances under which The American Dreamer (1971) was filmed in Taos, New Mexico over eighteen days of the sixteen-month period during which Dennis Hopper was editing The Last Movie (1971), his follow-up film to Easy Rider (1969). The article links the self-reflexive aspects of The American Dreamer to other forms of documentary film-making current at the time, and links the film to the concept of a New Hollywood and the emergence of a 'college-educated/youth audience'. It also relates the film to recent 'Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood' exhibitions, and to Hopper's work as a photographer.
- Description
- 10 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 200500 Literary Studies
- Subject Keyword
- 190400 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Subject Keyword
- Dennis Hopper
- Subject Keyword
- New Hollywood
- Subject Keyword
- self-reflexive documentary
- Subject Keyword
- US counterculture
- Subject Keyword
- The Last Movie
- Subject Keyword
- Easy Rider
- Subject Keyword
- music
- Subject Keyword
- photography
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/119213
- Identifier
- ISSN:1750-3299
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010002701
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
