The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Paperback)

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