Index of Film Titles

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Part One: Introductions
4. The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 9
5. ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema 19
6. American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Picture Show? 37
7. Part Two: Histories
8. The Decade When Movies Mattered 73
9. A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) 83
10. The Exploitation Generation. Or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold 107
11. New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot 131
12. Part Three: People and Places
13. Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile 155
14. “The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman 165
15. Nashville Contra Jaws, Or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited 195
16. For Wanda 223
17. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock 249
18. Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie 267
19. Part Four: Critical Debates
20. The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] 279
21. Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) 293
22. Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback, and 1970s American Cinema 309
23. Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling 333
24. Bibliography 359
25. List of Contributors 371
26. Pictures (with credits) 375
27. Index of Film Titles 377