1st Edition
The Last Great American Picture Show New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
392 Pages
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Routledge
The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not... Read more
Part One: Introductions, The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976, ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema, American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Great Picture Show, Part Two: Histories, The Decade When Movies Mattered, A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction), The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold, New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot, Part Three: People and Places, Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile, ”The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman, Nashville contra Jaws, or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited, For Wanda, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock, Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie, Part Four: Critical Debates, The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975], Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976), Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema, Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling, Bibliography, List of Contributors, Pictures (with credits), Index of Film Titles
Biography
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.
Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019) was Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
