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The Last Great American Picture Show
New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
- 400 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
The Last Great American Picture Show
New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
About this book
A unique evaluation of the American cinema of the 1970s, including cult film directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman and Monte Hellman
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Part One: Introductions
- The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976
- ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema
- American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Picture Show?
- Part Two: Histories
- The Decade When Movies Mattered
- A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction)
- The Exploitation Generation. Or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold
- New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot
- Part Three: People and Places
- Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile
- “The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman
- Nashville Contra Jaws, Or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited
- For Wanda
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock
- Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie
- Part Four: Critical Debates
- The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975]
- Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976)
- Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback, and 1970s American Cinema
- Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Pictures (with credits)
- Index of Film Titles