The Last Great American Picture Show : : New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s /

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The Last Great American Picture Show : : New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s / / ed. by Thomas Elsaesser, Noel King, Alexander Horwath.

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The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, M.A.S.H., Harold and Maude-these are only a few of the iconic films made in the United States during the 1970s. Originally considered a "lost generation," the 1970s are increasingly recognized as a crucial turning point in American filmmaking,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Elsaesser, Thomas,
Hampton, Howard,
Hoberman, J.,
Horwath, Alexander,
Jameson, Richard T.,
Jones, Kent,
Keathley, Christian,
King, Noel,
Martin, Adrian,
McDonagh, Maitland,
Polan, Dana,
Reynaud, Bérénice,
Robnik, Drehli,
Rosenbaum, Jonathan,
Thomson, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Elsaesser, Thomas,
Horwath, Alexander,
King, Noel,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 23 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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