The last great American picture show : new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s / edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath and Noel King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019, editor.

Horwath, Alexander, 1964- editor.

King, Noel, 1952- editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A unique evaluation of the American cinema of the 1970s, including cult film directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman and Monte Hellman.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Part One: Introductions

The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 / Horwath, Alexander

"The Last Good Time We Ever Had": Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema / King, Noel

American Auteur Cinema: The Last - or First - Picture Show? / Elsaesser, Thomas

Part Two: Histories

The Decade When Movies Mattered / Thomson, David

A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) / Horwath, Alexander

The Exploitation Generation. Or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold / McDonagh, Maitland

New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot / Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Part Three: People and Places

Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile / Jameson, Richard T.

"The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name": The Films of Monte Hellman / Jones, Kent

Nashville Contra Jaws, Or "The Imagination of Disaster" Revisited / Hoberman, J.

For Wanda / Reynaud, Bérénice

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock / Hampton, Howard

Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick's War Movie / Polan, Dana

Part Four: Critical Debates

The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970's: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] / Elsaesser, Thomas

Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood's Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) / Keathley, Christian

Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback, and 1970's American Cinema / Martin, Adrian

Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970's New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling / Robnik, Drehli

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Pictures (with credits)

Index of Film Titles

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-04-079999-X

1-003-70673-8

1-04-077409-1

1-280-95894-4

9786610958948

90-485-0368-X

1-4175-2172-4

9781003706731

OCLC:

55848929