American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 /
David A. Cook
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2002
xxii, 695 p. :
ill. ;
26 cm
History of the American cinema ;
v. 9
Originally published: New York : C. Scribner, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-594) and indexes
Introduction: a decade of change -- Formative industry trends, 1970-1979 -- Manufacturing the blockbuster: the "newest art form of the twentieth century" -- The auteur cinema: directors and directions in the "Hollywood Renaissance" -- Genres I: revision, transformation, and revival -- Genres II: exploitation and allusion -- Orders of magnitude I: majors, mini-majors, "instant majors," and independents -- Orders of magnitude II: costs, agents, stars -- Technological innovation and aesthetic response -- Motion picture exhibition in the 1970s America / Douglas Gomery -- Looking back and turning inward: American documentary films of the Seventies / William Rothman -- Avant-garde cinema of the Seventies / Robin Blaetz