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The new American cinema

Title
The new American cinema / edited by Jon Lewis.
Publication
  • Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 1998.
  • ©1998

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Additional Authors
Lewis, Jon, 1955-
Description
405 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. Deliberately eclectic and panoramic, The New American Cinema brings together thirteen leading film scholars who present a range of theoretical, critical, and historical perspectives on this rich and pivotal era in American cinema.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Auteur cinema and the "film generation" in 1970s Hollywood / David A. Cook -- Auteurs and the new Hollywood / Timothy Corrigan -- From roadshowing to saturation release : majors, independents, and marketing/distribution innovations / Justin Wyatt -- Money matters : Hollywood in the corporate era / Jon Lewis -- A rose is a rose? Real women and a lost war / Tania Modleski -- From pillar to postmodern : race, class, and gender in the male rampage film / Fred Pfeil -- Your self storage : female investigtaion and male performativity in the woman's psychothriller / Sabrina Barton --Conspiracy theory and political murder in America : Oliver Stone's JFK and the facts of the matter / Christopher Sharret -- Zooming out : the end of offscreen space / Scott Bukatman -- John Cassavetes : amateur director / Ivone Margulies -- Independent features : hopes and dreams / Chuck Kleinhans -- A circus of dreams and lies : the Black film wave at middle age / Ed Guerrero -- Culture as fiction : the ethnographic impulse in the films of Peggy Ahwesh, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton / Catherine Russell.
ISBN
  • 0822320878
  • 9780822320876
  • 0822321157
  • 9780822321156
LCCN
97035210
OCLC
  • ocm37721286
  • 37721286
  • SCSB-823711
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library