Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond: A Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Text

Robin Wood

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Paper, 480 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12967-1
$32.50 / £22.50

July, 2003
Cloth, 480 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12966-4
$90.00 / £62.00

Prologue 2003

1. Cards on the Table

2. The Chase: Flashback, 1965

3. Smart-Ass and Cutie-Pie: Notes Toward the Evaluation of Altman (1975)

4. The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the 70s

5. The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s

6. Normality and Monsters: The Films of Larry Cohen and George Romero

7. Brian De Palma: The Politics of Castration

8. Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era

9. Horror in the 80s

10. Images and Women

11. From Buddies to Lovers

12. Two Films by Martin Scorsese

13. Two Films by Michael Cimino

14. Day of the Dead: The Woman's Nightmare

15. On and Around My Best Friend's Wedding

16. Teens, Parties, and Rollercoasters: A Genre of the 90s

17. Hollywood Today: Is an Oppositional Cinema Possible?

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Film

About the Author

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.

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