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

Table of contents

• The Last Great American Picture Show - New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s *
• Table of Contents 5
• 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 - 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 *

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