The last great American picture show : : new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s / / edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath and Noel King.

• Superior document: Film culture in transition
• TeilnehmendeR: Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019,; Horwath, Alexander, 1964-; King, Noel, 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Film culture in transition.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).
• Other title: Front matter --; 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 1970's: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] /; Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood's Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) /; Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback, and 1970's American Cinema /; Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970's New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling /; Bibliography --; List of Contributors --; Pictures (with credits) --; Index of Film Titles
• ISBN: 1280958944; 9786610958948; 904850368X; 1417521724
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath and Noel King.

A unique evaluation of the American cinema of the 1970s, including cult film directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman and Monte Hellman.