The New American Cinema

by Lewis, Jon; Cook, David A. (CON); Corrigan, Timothy (CON); Wyatt, Justin (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822321156
• ISBN10: 0822321157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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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