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).

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

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Part One: Introductions -- The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 / Horwath, Alexander -- "The Last Good Time We Ever Had": Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema / King, Noel -- American Auteur Cinema: The Last - or First - Picture Show? / Elsaesser, Thomas -- Part Two: Histories -- The Decade When Movies Mattered / Thomson, David -- A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) / Horwath, Alexander -- The Exploitation Generation. Or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold / McDonagh, Maitland -- New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot / Rosenbaum, Jonathan -- Part Three: People and Places -- Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile / Jameson, Richard T. -- "The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name": The Films of Monte Hellman / Jones, Kent -- Nashville Contra Jaws, Or "The Imagination of Disaster" Revisited / Hoberman, J. -- For Wanda / Reynaud, Bérénice -- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock / Hampton, Howard -- Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick's War Movie / Polan, Dana -- Part Four: Critical Debates -- The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970's: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] / Elsaesser, Thomas -- Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood's Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) / Keathley, Christian -- Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback, and 1970's American Cinema / Martin, Adrian -- Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970's New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling / Robnik, Drehli -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Pictures (with credits) -- Index of Film Titles