Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan ... and Beyond

Name: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan ... and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780231129671

ISBN-10: 023112967X

ISBN-13: 9780231129671

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Robin Wood

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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'.

Book details

List price: $36.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.90" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Robin Wood is a founding editor of CineActionand author of Hitchcock's Films Revisited(Revised Edition, Columbia, 2002) and Sexual Politics and Narrative Film(Columbia, 1998). He is professor emeritus at York University and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.



Acknowledgments


Prologue (2003)



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?


Bibliography


Index