The American Film Collection: #1 Easy Rider
RELEASE DATE:
OCTOBER 2009
Every issue features:
* historical perspectives
* rare behind-the-scenes trivia
* in-depth critical analysis
* premier cast and crew biographical information
With a full range of interactive youtube embedded online supplementary material at Wider Screenings
The Wider Screenings Guide to Essential Film Viewing
The American Film Collection
An ongoing Wider Screenings Guide e-book series
Each e-book offers a detailed production history, critical account and analysis of the best of American film, from classic Hollywood to the challenges of independent cinema. With introductory biographies of key cast and crew.
Featured films include: Midnight Cowboy, The Wild Bunch, Easy Rider, American Graffiti, Deliverance, Death Wish, Taxi Driver, Seconds, Blade Runner, Dog Day Afternoon, The Stunt Man, Scarface, The Magnificent Seven, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and many, many more.
Profiling cultural values, progressive moral standards and rationalist interpretation in a film by film profile of the most acclaimed, popular, influential and controversial of American films.
A place to read about your favourite films, the people who made them and their place in cinema history: a Wider Screenings Guide e-book series with a wealth of supplementary material and embedded video online.
Jack Nicholson's "stoner" monologue in Easy Rider features in the September 2009 ebook release of the 50 Greatest Movie Monologues
"Nobody had ever seen themselves portrayed in a movie. At every love-in across the country people were smoking grass and dropping LSD, while (American film) audiences were still watching Doris Day and Rock Hudson." (Dennis Hopper)
"An ongoing e-book Journey through the landmarks of American Cinema."