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