Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: The New Hollywood Revisited 1
4. 1. The Mad Housewives of the Neo-Woman’s Film: The Age of Ambivalence Revisited 18
5. 2. Antonioni’s America: Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, and the Making of a New Hollywood 36
6. 3. “Jason’s No Businessman . . . I Think He’s an Artist”: BBS and the New Hollywood Dream 51
7. 4. Robert Altman: Documentaries, Dreamscapes, and Dialogic Cinema 69
8. 5. City of Losers, Losing City: Pacino, New York, and the New Hollywood Cinema 86
9. 6. The Parallax View: Why Trust Anyone? 101
10. 7. Cinematic Tone in Polanski’s Chinatown: Can “Life” Itself Be “False”? 115
11. 8. “I Don’t Know What to Do with My Hands”: John Cassavetes’s The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 130
12. 9. The Spirit of ’76: Travis, Rocky, and Jimmy Carter 149
13. Coda: What “Golden Age”? A Dissenting Opinion 164
14. Appendix: Time Line—the New Hollywood Years 177
15. Notes on Contributors 189
16. Notes 191
17. Index 205