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9780822321156

The New American Cinema

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822321156

  • ISBN10:

    0822321157

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"Until now, there has been neither a book nor a collection that addresses recent American film with equal breadth and depth."--D. N. Rodowick, author of "Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine"

Author Biography

Jon Lewis is Professor of English at Oregon State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Movies and Money
Auteur Cinema and the "Film Generation" in 1970s Hollywood
Auteurs and the New Hollywood
From Roadshowing to Saturation Release: Majors, Independents, and Marketing/Distribution Innovations
Money Matters: Hollywood in the Corporate Era
Cinema and Culture
A Rose Is a Rose? Real Women and a Lost War
From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the male Rampage Film
Your Self Storage: Female Investigation and Male Performativity in the Woman's Psychothriller
Conspiracy Theory and Political Murder in America: Oliver Stone's JFK and the Facts of the Matter
Zooming Out: The End of Offscreen Space
Independents and Independence
John Cassavetes: Amateur Director
Independent Features: Hopes and Dreams
A Circus of Dreams and Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age
Culture as Fiction: The Ethnographic Impulse in the Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton
Selective Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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