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The Last Great American Picture Show
New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
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Languages:
English, English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
A unique evaluation of the American cinema of the 1970s, including cult film directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman and Monte Hellman
Author / Editor information
Thomas Elsaesser is a professor of art and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Alexander Horwath is the director of the Museum of Cinema in Vienna, Austria. Noel King lectures in film studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
Reviews
"The Last Great American Picture Show offers a truly dizzying range of options simply for mapping the decade that has come--for better or worse, truth or legend--to acquire a hot retrospective golden glow. . . . The Last Great American Picture Show . . . restores to the decade the sense of fecund chaos that a more linear, journalistic account of the decade risks losing for the sake of imposing some retrospective linearity on what was ultimately remarkable for its incoherence: a few historical moments when Hollywood lost the script, forgot the plot, and stood there wondering just how it got there in the first place."
— Geoff Pevere, Cinema ScopeTopics
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
5 - Part One: Introductions
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The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976
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”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema
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American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Picture Show?
37 - Part Two: Histories
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The Decade When Movies Mattered
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A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction)
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The Exploitation Generation. Or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold
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New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot
131 - Part Three: People and Places
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Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile
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“The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman
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Nashville Contra Jaws, Or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited
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For Wanda
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock
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Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie
267 - Part Four: Critical Debates
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The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975]
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Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976)
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Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback, and 1970s American Cinema
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Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling
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Bibliography
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List of Contributors
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Pictures (with credits)
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Index of Film Titles
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
February 19, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048503681
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400
