Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and beyond / Robin Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Robin, 1931-2009.

Contributor:

Wood, Robin, 1931-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xlv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Expanded and revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

Summary:

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era. For the new edition, Wood has included a considerable new preface, a chapter celebrating "My Best Friend's Wedding, " a section on 90s American teen comedies such as "American Pie" and "Can't Hardly Wait", a chapter on Hollywood today that looks at David Fincher and Jim Jarmusch (among others), and a helpful essay on "Day of the Dead."

Contents:

1. Cards on the Table 1

2. The Chase: Flashback, 1965 9

3. Smart-Ass and Cutie-Pie: Notes Toward the Evaluation of Altman (1975) 23

4. The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the 70s 41

5. The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s 63

6. Normality and Monsters: The Films of Larry Cohen and George Romero 85

7. Brian De Palma: The Politics of Castration 120

8. Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era 144

9. Horror in the 80s 168

10. Images and Women 180

11. From Buddies to Lovers 198

12. Two Films by Martin Scorsese 219

13. Two Films by Michael Cimino 241

14. Day of the Dead: The Woman's Nightmare 287

15. On and Around My Best Friend's Wedding 295

16. Teens, Parties, and Rollercoasters: A Genre of the 90s 309

17. Hollywood Today: Is an Oppositional Cinema Possible? 333.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-352) and index.

Related Work:

Wood, Robin, 1931-2009. Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan.

ISBN:

0231129661

023112967X

OCLC:

51647599