{"product_id":"the-new-american-cinema-9780822321156","title":"The New American Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a collection of essays that provides the comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-60s the present. This title 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection is the first I know of to examine contemporary American cinema from so many viewpoints. . . . The authors provide us with new ways of understanding not just the theory and history of recent American film practices, but also the mix of government action, industrial policy, and audience desire that has played such a central role in producing the movies of the last generation.\"—Eric Smoodin, author of \u003ci\u003eDisney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This definitive reader-anthology is distinguished by the reputation of its contributors and the intelligence and relevance of their essays.\"—Dana Polan, author \u003ci\u003eof Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze’s Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Jon Lewis        1\u003cbr\u003e Movies and Money        \u003cbr\u003e Auteur Cinema and the \"Film Generation\" in 1970s Hollywood \/ David A. Cook        11\u003cbr\u003e Auteurs and the New Hollywood \/ Timothy Corrigan        38\u003cbr\u003e From Roadshowing to Saturation Release: Majors, Independents, and Marketing\/Distribution Innovations \/ Justin Wyatt        64\u003cbr\u003e Money Matters: Hollywood in the Corporate Era \/ Jon Lewis        87\u003cbr\u003e Cinema and Culture        \u003cbr\u003e A Rose Is a Rose? Real Women and a Lost War \/ Tania Modleski        125\u003cbr\u003e From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the male Rampage Film \/ Fred Pfeil        146\u003cbr\u003e Your Self Storage: Female Investigation and Male Performativity in the Woman's Psychothriller \/ Sabrina Barton        187\u003cbr\u003e Conspiracy Theory and Political Murder in America: Oliver Stone's \u003ci\u003eJFK\u003c\/i\u003e and the Facts of the Matter \/ Christopher Sharrett        217\u003cbr\u003e Zooming Out: The End of Offscreen Space \/ Scott Bukatman        248\u003cbr\u003e Independents and Independence        \u003cbr\u003e John Cassavetes: Amateur Director \/ Ivone Margulies        275\u003cbr\u003e Independent Features: Hopes and Dreams \/ Chuck Kleinhans        307\u003cbr\u003e A Circus of Dreams and Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age \/ Ed Guerrero        328\u003cbr\u003e Culture as Fiction: The Ethnographic Impulse in the Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton \/ Catherine Russell        353\u003cbr\u003e Selective Bibliography        379\u003cbr\u003e Contributors        387\u003cbr\u003e Index        389","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038661607767,"sku":"9780822321156","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822321156.jpg?v=1750940964","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-american-cinema-9780822321156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}