This special event celebrates this groundbreaking new book that digs into the twinning of Hollywood and the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. Jon Lewis will be on Zoom, and actress Cynthia Henderson will perform readings from sections of this exciting look into an unknown and under-researched polyphonic Hollywoood
Book launch and special performance
Monday, April 3, at 7:15 p.m.
Park Auditorium
FREE
Opening Salute to FLEFF:
Jane Fonda
Author:
Jon Lewis
Actress
Cynthia Henderson
Moderator
Andrew Utterson
Join us in Park Auditorium in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.
ABOUT THE BOOK
How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture.
By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten-year span (from 1967 to 1976) rife with uneasy encounters between artists caught up in the counterculture and a corporate establishment still clinging to a studio system on the brink of collapse. Out of this tumultuous period many among the young and talented walked away from celebrity, turning down the best job Hollywood—and America—had on offer: movie star.
ABOUT AUTHOR JON LEWIS
Jon Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and a University Honors College Eminent Professor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983.
He has published sixteen books, including: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, which won a Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award; Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; The New American Cinema; Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry; The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties; American Film: A History; Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History; The Godfather; Essential Cinema; The American Film History Reader; Producing; Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles; When the Movies Mattered (with Jonathan Kirschner); Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture; and, for the BFI Film Classics series, The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II.
ABOUT PERFORMER CYNTHIA HENDERSON
Cynthia Henderson is a Professor of Acting in Ithaca College's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, and the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance Performance.
A professional actor, director, and the author of The Actor's Landscape, she has worked in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia, and on the African continent. She is the founder of Performing Arts for Social Change. Her work in the area of social justice has earned her the CSPA of New York State's award for "Outstanding Contribution to Social Justice." She was also cited at the NYS Women's Expo as one the "20 Outstanding Women You Should Know" in Central NY.
