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The Last Great American Picture Show

New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
  • Edited by: Thomas Elsaesser , Noel King and Alexander Horwath
Languages: English, English
Published/Copyright: 2004
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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.

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"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 Scope


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Part One: Introductions

Alexander Horwath
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Noel King
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Thomas Elsaesser
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Part Two: Histories

David Thomson
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Alexander Horwath
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Maitland McDonagh
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Part Three: People and Places

Richard T. Jameson
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Kent Jones
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J. Hoberman
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Bérénice Reynaud
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Howard Hampton
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Dana Polan
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Part Four: Critical Debates

Thomas Elsaesser
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Christian Keathley
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Adrian Martin
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Drehli Robnik
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eBook published on:
January 19, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9789048503681
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400
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23 black and white illustrations
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