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List of contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame
2. The Great Shift in Hollywood Cinema: Men, Women, and Genre Revisionism
of the American New Wave
Fjoralba Miraka
3. Formal Radicalism vs. Radical Representation: Reassessing The French
Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) and Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
Cary Edwards
4. A Wave of Their Own: How Jewish Filmmakers Invented the New Hollywood
Vincent Brook
5. New Hollywood’s “Zany Godards”: A “Shirley” Serious Assessment of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker
Emilio Audissino
6. Design as Authorship: Polly Platt’s New Hollywood Aesthetic
Aaron Hunter
7. “The Ultimate Fusion of Commerce and Art”: Waldo Salt and Screenwriting in
the 1970s
Oliver Gruner
8. Expanding the Past: Julie Dash and Zora Neale Hurston, African American
Women filmmakers of New Hollywood and Early Cinema
Aimee Dixon Anthony
9. Lost in the Landscape: The Legacy of Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) on the Contemporary American Independent Female Road Movie
Aimee Mollaghan
10. The New Wave in the New Millennium: Joker, Taxi Driver, Nostalgia, and
Trumpian Politics
Karen Ritzenhoff and Hannah D’Orso
11. Indie Courtship: Pursuing the American New Wave
Kim Wilkins
12. Afterword: New Wave, New Hollywood, New Research
Peter Krämer
Index
About the author
Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, UK. He is the founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles, including most recently The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (2012). He is currently editing a collection entitled Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (forthcoming).Gregory Frame is Teaching Associate in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation (2014). He has published articles about the politics of American film and television in Journal of American Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Journal of Popular Film and Television.
Summary
As a period of film history, The American New Wave (ordinarily understood as beginning in 1967 and ending in 1980) remains a preoccupation for scholars and audiences alike. In traditional accounts, it is considered to be bookended by two periods of conservatism, and viewed as a (brief) period of explosive creativity within the Hollywood system. From Bonnie and Clyde to Heaven’s Gate, it produced films that continue to be watched, discussed, analysed and poured over.
It has, however, also become rigidly defined as a cinema of director-auteurs who made a number of aesthetically and politically significant films. This has led to marginalization and exclusion of many important artists and filmmakers, as well as a temporal rigidity about what and who is considered part of the ‘New Wave proper’. This collection seeks to reinvigorate debate around this area of film history. It also looks in part to demonstrate the legacy of aesthetic experimentation and political radicalism after 1980 as part of the ‘legacy’ of the New Wave. Thanks to important new work that questions received scholarly wisdom, reveals previously marginalised filmmakers (and the films they made), considers new genres, personnel, and films under the banner of ‘New Wave, New Hollywood’, and reevaluates the traditional approaches and perspectives on the films that have enjoyed most critical attention, New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, Legacy looks to begin a new discussion about Hollywood cinema after 1967.
Foreword
New Wave, New Hollywood offers new perspectives on a key time in American film history.
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A wide-ranging re-appraisal of the 'New Wave', which both underlines and questions its enduring significance for American film scholarship, and serves to reshape its parameters in important and timely ways. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this era and its vexed legacy.
