Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and beyond
This new edition includes all the chapters of the original work, supplemented with analysis of comedy films of the 1990s, a chapter on contemporary filmmakers, including David Fincher & Jim Jarmusch, & an essay on 'Day of the Dead'
Print Book, English, ©2003
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Columbia University Press, New York, ©2003
History
xlv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780231129664, 9780231129671, 0231129661, 023112967X
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Prologue (2003) : our culture, our cinema : for a repoliticized criticism
Cards on the table
The chase : flashback, 1965
Smart-ass and cutie-pie : notes toward the evaluation of Altman (1975)
The incoherent text : narrative in the 70s
The American nightmare : horror in the 70s
Normality and monsters : the films of Larry Cohen and George Romero
Brian De Palma : the politics of castration
Papering the cracks : fantasy and ideology in the Reagan era
Horror in the 80s
Images and women
From buddies to lovers
Two films by Martin Scorsese
Two films by Michael Cimino
Day of the dead : the woman's nightmare
On and around My best friend's wedding
Teens, parties, and rollercoasters : a genre of the 90s
Hollywood today : is an oppositional cinema possible?
Revised edition of: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, 1986