The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s

by Horwath and Thomas Elsaesser

Book Overview

The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into existence.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053566317
• ISBN13: 9789053566312
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.7"