The New American cinema

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The New American cinema

edited by Jon Lewis

Duke University Press, 1998

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-385) and index

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内容説明

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. The essays are divided into three sections: "Movies and Money," "Cinema and Culture," and "Independents and Independence." The first section focuses on the economics of the industry and analyzes the connection between the film business and the finished product. Topics include a look at the economic conditions that made the seventies' auteur renaissance possible, the distribution of studio and independent films, and the recent spate of mergers and acquisitions that have come to characterize the new Hollywood. The second part of The New American Cinema deals with the political and cultural significance of war and Vietnam films (Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July); "male rampage" films (Rambo, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard); women's psychothrillers (The Silence of the Lambs); special effects pictures (2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars); and historical re-presentations (Oliver Stone's JFK). The final section casts a keen eye on films produced and exhibited outside the commercial mainstream, examining the financial realities of "indie" films; the influence of independent filmmaker John Cassavetes on Coppola, Altman, and Scorsese; the stereotyping of African Americans in mainstream cinema; and the films of independent women filmmakers.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Jon Lewis 1 Movies and Money Auteur Cinema and the "Film Generation" in 1970s Hollywood / David A. Cook 11 Auteurs and the New Hollywood / Timothy Corrigan 38 From Roadshowing to Saturation Release: Majors, Independents, and Marketing/Distribution Innovations / Justin Wyatt 64 Money Matters: Hollywood in the Corporate Era / Jon Lewis 87 Cinema and Culture A Rose Is a Rose? Real Women and a Lost War / Tania Modleski 125 From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the male Rampage Film / Fred Pfeil 146 Your Self Storage: Female Investigation and Male Performativity in the Woman's Psychothriller / Sabrina Barton 187 Conspiracy Theory and Political Murder in America: Oliver Stone's JFK and the Facts of the Matter / Christopher Sharrett 217 Zooming Out: The End of Offscreen Space / Scott Bukatman 248 Independents and Independence John Cassavetes: Amateur Director / Ivone Margulies 275 Independent Features: Hopes and Dreams / Chuck Kleinhans 307 A Circus of Dreams and Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age / Ed Guerrero 328 Culture as Fiction: The Ethnographic Impulse in the Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton / Catherine Russell 353 Selective Bibliography 379 Contributors 387 Index 389

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