Contemporary American Cinema

Table of contents

• Contemporary American Cinema i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Notes on Contributors xiii
• Editors' Acknowledgements xvii
• Anoteonbox Office Figures 1960–2004 xix
• Introduction: The Whats, Whys and Hows of This Book xxi
• The 60s Sixties 1
• 1: American Cinema, 1965–70 12
• 2: Debts, Disasters and Mega-Musicais 41
• 3: American Underground Cinema of the 1960s 62
• 4: North American Documentary in the 1960s 73
• 5: Thelastgood Time We Ever Had” Revising the Hollywood Renaissance 90
• The 70s Seventies 115
• 6: American Cenema, 1970–75 124
• 7: Blockbusters in the 1970s 164
• 8: Blaxploitatlon 184
• 9: The 1970s and American Documentary 199
• The 80s Eighties 221
• 10: Hollywood in the Age of Reagan 229
• 11: Us Independent Cinema Since the 1980s 247
• 12: Disney and Family Entertainment 265
• 13: The Vietnam War in American Cinema 280
• 14: The 1980s and American Documentary 289
• 15: Women in Recent Us Cinema 299
• The 90s and beyond Nineties 323
• 16: Spectacle and Narrative in the Contemporary Blockbuster 334
• 17: What is Cinema Today? Home Viewing, New Technologies and Dvd 356
• 18: American Documentary Film in the 1990s 379
• 19: New Black Cinema 389
• 20: New Queer Cinema 398
• 21: Fantasizing Gender and Race 410
• 22: Smart Cinema 429
• Glossary 451
• Bibliography 455
• Filmography 482
• Index 505
• Publisher's Acknowledgements 545

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