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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Editors' Acknowledgements | |
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| A Note on Box Office Figures 1960-2004 | |
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| Introduction - the whats, whys and hows of this book | |
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| The 1960s | |
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| Introduction | |
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| American Cinema, 1965-70 | |
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| The Road Movie | |
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| Roger Corman and New World | |
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| The Sound of Music | |
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| Night of the Living Dead | |
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| Debts, Disasters and Mega-Musicals: The Decline of the Studio System | |
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| Twentieth Century Fox in the 1960s | |
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| The Hollywood Musical | |
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| American Underground Cinema of the 1960s | |
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| North American Documentary in the 1960s | |
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| Pop Movies and Festival Films | |
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| "The Last Good Time We Ever Had?": Revising the Hollywood Renaissance | |
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| Psycho | |
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| Warren Beatty | |
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| The Graduate | |
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| Box Office Figures, 1960s and Award Winners 1960-69 | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| The 1970s | |
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| Introduction | |
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| American Cinema, 1970-75 | |
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| Alan Arkin | |
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| Disaster Movies in the 1970s | |
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| American Horror Cinema since 1960 | |
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| Auteurism and Auteurs | |
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| Sam Peckinpah | |
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| Taxi Driver | |
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| Jane Fonda | |
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| Blockbusters in the 1970s | |
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| Steven Spielberg | |
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| Star Wars | |
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| William Friedkin | |
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| Blaxploitation | |
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| Richard Pryor Live in Concert | |
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| The 1970s and American Documentary | |
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| Eraserhead | |
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| Box Office Figures, 1970s and Award Winners 1970-79 | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| The 1980s | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hollywood in the Age of Reagan | |
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| Science Fiction and Fantasy since 1960 | |
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| Simpson and Bruckheimer | |
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| Tim Burton | |
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| Heaven's Gate and United Artists | |
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| US Independent Cinema since the 1980s | |
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| Do the Right Thing | |
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| Miramax | |
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| Disney and Family Entertainment | |
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| Back to the Future | |
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| The Vietnam War in American Cinema | |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
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| The 1980s and American Documentary | |
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| MTV | |
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| Women in Recent US Cinema | |
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| Barbra Streisand | |
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| Desperately Seeking Susan | |
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| Sigourney Weaver | |
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| Box Office Figures, 1980s and Award Winners 1980-89 | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| The 1990s and Beyond | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Spectacle and Narrative in the Contemporary Blockbuster | |
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| Hong Kong in Hollywood | |
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| Sequels, Series and Spin-offs | |
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| Titanic | |
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| The Agent | |
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| What Is Cinema Today? Home Viewing, New Technologies and DVD | |
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| Neo-Noir and Erotic Thrillers | |
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| Toy Story | |
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| Tom Hanks | |
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| American Documentary Film in the 1990s | |
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| New Black Cinema | |
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| The Hughes brothers | |
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| John Singleton | |
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| New Queer Cinema | |
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| The Silence of the Lambs | |
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| Fantasizing Gender and Race: Women in Contemporary US Action Cinema | |
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| Jodie Foster | |
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| Unforgiven | |
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| Kathryn Bigelow | |
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| Smart Cinema | |
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| Quentin Tarantino | |
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| Box Office Figures, 1990s and Award Winners 1990-2004 | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Filmography | |
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| Index | |
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| Publisher's Acknowledgements | |