Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979

Advisory Board......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Preface. A Time of Illusion......Page 16
A Note on Box-Office Revenues......Page 19
A Note on Aspect Ratios......Page 20
1. Introduction: A Decade of Change......Page 22
2. Formative Industry Trends, 1970-1979......Page 29
3. Manufacturing the Blockbuster: The \"Newest Art Form of the Twentieth Century\"......Page 45
4. The Auteur Cinema: Directors and Directions in the \"Hollywood Renaissance\"......Page 86
5. Genres I: Revision, Transformation, and Revival......Page 177
6. Genres II: Exploitation and Allusion......Page 276
7. Orders of Magnitude I: Majors, Mini-Majors, \"Instant Majors\", and Independents......Page 317
8. Orders of Magnitude II: Costs, Agents, Stars......Page 353
9. Technological Innovation and Aesthetic Response......Page 370
10. Motion Picture Exhibition in 1970s America......Page 412
11. Looking Back and Turning Inward: American Documentary Films of the Seventies......Page 432
12. Avant-Garde Cinema of the Seventies......Page 467
Avant-Garde Cinema Filmography......Page 493
Appendixes......Page 502
Notes......Page 528
Bibliography......Page 574