The last great American picture show : new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s /

Other Authors: King, Noel,, Elsaesser, Thomas,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2004.
Series:Film culture in transition
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Table of Contents:
  • The impure cinema : new Hollywood 1967-1976 / Alexander Horwath
  • "The last good time we ever had" : remembering the new Hollywood cinema / Noel King
  • American auteur cinema : the last
  • or first
  • great picture show / Thomas Elsaesser
  • The decade when movies mattered / David Thomson
  • A walking contradiction (partly truth and partly fiction) / Alexander Horwath
  • The exploitation generation, or how marginal movies came in from the cold / Maitland McDonagh
  • New Hollywood and the sixties melting pot / Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • Dinosaurs in the age of the cinemobile / Richard T. Jameson
  • "The cylinders were whispering my name" : the films of Monte Hellman / Kent Jones
  • Nashville contra Jaws, or "The imagination of disaster" revisited / J. Hoberman
  • For Wanda / Bérénice Reynaud
  • Everybody knows this is nowhere : the uneasy ride of Hollywood and rock / Howard Hampton
  • Auteurism and war-teurism : Terrence Malick's war movie / Dana Polan
  • The pathos of failure : American films in the 1970s : notes on the unmotivated hero / Thomas Elsaesser
  • Trapped in the affection image : Hollywood's post-traumatic cycle (1970-1976) / Christian Keathley
  • Grim fascination : Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American cinema / Adrian Martin
  • Allegories of post-Fordism in 1970s new Hollywood : countercultural combat films and conspiracy thrillers as genre recycling / Drehli Robnik.