Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond

Couverture
Columbia University Press, 2003 - 363 pages

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be read-that in which it was written and that in which we find ourselves today. Among the other additions to this new edition are a celebration of modern "screwball" comedies like My Best Friend's Wedding, and an analysis of '90s American and Canadian teen movies in the vein of American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, and Rollercoaster. Also included are a chapter on Hollywood today that looks at David Fincher and Jim Jarmusch (among others) and an illuminating essay on Day of the Dead.

 

Table des matières

Acknowledgments
ix
Prologue 2003
xiii
Cards on the Table I
1
Flashback 1965
9
Notes Toward the Evaluation of Altman 1975
23
Narrative in the 70s
41
Horror in the 70s
63
The Films of Larry Cohen and George Romero
85
Images and Women
180
From Buddies to Lovers
198
Two Films by Martin Scorsese
219
Two Films by Michael Cimino
241
The Womans Nightmare
287
On and Around My Best Friends Wedding
295
A Genre of the 908
309
Is an Oppositional Cinema Possible?
333

The Politics of Castration
120
Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era
144
Horror in the 80s
168
Bibliography
351
Droits d'auteur

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À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Robin Wood is a founding editor of CineAction and 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.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreHollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond, Robin Wood
AuteurRobin Wood
Éditionillustrée, révisée
ÉditeurColumbia University Press, 2003
ISBN0231129661, 9780231129664
Longueur363 pages
  
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