Hal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Though he was a member of the same generation of filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, Ashby has received comparatively little critical or scholarly validation for his work. Author Christopher Beach argues that despite his lower profile, Ashby was an exceptionally versatile and unusually creative director. Beach focuses primarily on Ashbys first seven filmsThe Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being Thereto analyze Ashbys contributions to filmmaking culture in the 1970s. The first two chapters of this volume provide an overview of Ashbys filmmaking career, as Beach makes the case for Ashbys status as an auteur and provides a biographical survey of Ashbys most productive and successful decade, the 1970s. In the following chapters, Beach analyzes groups of films to uncover important thematic concerns in Ashbys work, including the treatment of a young male protagonist in The Landlord and Harold and Maude, the representation of the U.S. military in The Last Detail and Coming Home, and the role of television and mass media in Shampoo and Being There. Beach also examines the crucial role of the musical score in Ashbys films, as well as the rapid decline of the directors career after Being There. The Films of Hal Ashby is based on Beachs...

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