Hollywood Incoherent : : Narration in Seventies Cinema / / Todd Berliner.
In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywood's own history of narrative ingenuity, directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Part I An Introduction to Narrative Incongruity
- Chapter 1 Poetics of Seventies Cinema
- Chapter 2 Narrative Incongruity in Seventies Cinema
- Part II Modes of Narration in Seventies Films
- Chapter 3 Narrative Frustration: From The Godfather to The Godfather, Part II
- Chapter 4 Genre Deviation and The French Connection
- Chapter 5 Conceptual Incongruity and The Exorcist
- Part III Incongruity’s Endpoints
- Chapter 6 Incongruity and Unity in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver
- Chapter 7 John Cassavetes’s Radical Narration
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Best Films of the 1970s: Best Picture Awards, Critics Lists and Other Rankings, and Box Office Grosses
- Appendix B. Study of Film Incoherence
- Appendix C. Study of the Degree of Resolution of Film Endings
- Appendix D. Study of Best Picture Lists and Incoherence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index