Description
Book SynopsisLooking at iconic films such as
The Godfather,
The French Connection,
The Exorcist,
Taxi Driver, and
A Woman Under the Influence, this book reveals that the narrative and stylistic innovations of the 1970s opened a new era in American cinema.
Trade ReviewThis will undoubtedly become an essential book for future scholars of Seventies Hollywood. * Film Comment *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: An Introduction to Narrative Incongruity
- Chapter One. Poetics of Seventies Cinema
- Chapter Two. Narrative Incongruity in Seventies Cinema
- Part II: Modes of Narration in Seventies Films
- Chapter Three. Narrative Frustration: From The Godfather to The Godfather, Part II
- Chapter Four. Genre Deviation and The French Connection
- Chapter Five. Conceptual Incongruity and The Exorcist
- Part III: Incongruity's Endpoints
- Chapter Six. Incongruity and Unity in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
- Chapter Seven. John Cassavetes's Radical Narration
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Best Films of the 1970s: Best Picture Awards, Critics Lists and Other Rankings, and Box Office Grosses
- Appendix B. Study of Film Incoherence
- Appendix C. Study of the Degree of Resolution of Film Endings
- Appendix D. Study of Best Picture Lists and Incoherence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
