Todd Berliner

Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at iconic films such as The Godfather, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and A Woman Under the Influence, this book reveals that the narrative and stylistic innovations of the 1970s opened a new era in American cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 167mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780292722798
• ISBN-10: 0292722796
• Artikelnr.: 29925850

Autorenporträt

TODD BERLINER is Associate Professor, Department of Film Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Part I: An Introduction to Narrative Incongruity
* Chapter One. Poetics of Seventies Cinema
* Chapter Two. Narrative Incongruity in Seventies Cinema
3. Part II: Modes of Narration in Seventies Films
* Chapter Three. Narrative Frustration: From The Godfather to The
Godfather, Part II
* Chapter Four. Genre Deviation and The French Connection
* Chapter Five. Conceptual Incongruity and The Exorcist
4. Part III: Incongruity's Endpoints
* Chapter Six. Incongruity and Unity in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
* Chapter Seven. John Cassavetes's Radical Narration
5. Conclusion
6. Appendix A. Best Films of the 1970s: Best Picture Awards, Critics Lists and
Other Rankings, and Box Office Grosses
7. Appendix B. Study of Film Incoherence
8. Appendix C. Study of the Degree of Resolution of Film Endings
9. Appendix D. Study of Best Picture Lists and Incoherence
10. Notes
11. Bibliography
12. Index