Chapter 4 Genre Deviation and The French Connection

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part I An Introduction to Narrative Incongruity
5. Chapter 1 Poetics of Seventies Cinema 1
6. Chapter 2 Narrative Incongruity in Seventies Cinema 25
7. Part II Modes of Narration in Seventies Films
8. Chapter 3 Narrative Frustration: From The Godfather to The Godfather, Part II 53
9. Chapter 4 Genre Deviation and The French Connection 90
10. Chapter 5 Conceptual Incongruity and The Exorcist 118
11. Part III Incongruity’s Endpoints
12. Chapter 6 Incongruity and Unity in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver 147
13. Chapter 7 John Cassavetes’s Radical Narration 181
14. Conclusion 216
15. Appendix A. Best Films of the 1970s: Best Picture Awards, Critics Lists and Other Rankings, and Box Office Grosses 222
16. Appendix B. Study of Film Incoherence 229
17. Appendix C. Study of the Degree of Resolution of Film Endings 233
18. Appendix D. Study of Best Picture Lists and Incoherence 234
19. Notes 237
20. Bibliography 251
21. Index 263