Part One: Introduction
The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976
Alexander Horwath
"The Last Good Time We Ever Had": Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema
Noel King
American Auteur Cinema: The Last - or First - Great Picture Show
Thomas Elsaesser
Part Two: Histories
The Decade When Movies Mattered
David Thomson
A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction)
Alexander Horwath
The Exploitation Generation, or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold
Maitland McDonagh
New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Part Three: People and Places
Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile
Richard T. Jameson
"The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name": The Films of Monte Hellman
Kent Jones
NASHVILLE contra JAWS, or "The Imagination of Disaster" Revisted
J. Hoberman
For WANDA
Bérénice Reynaud
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock
Howard Hampton
Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick's War Movie
Dana Polan
Part Four: Critical Debates
The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmoticated Hero
Thomas Elsaesser
Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood's Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976)
Christian Keathley
Grim Fascination: FINGERS,James Toback and the 1970s American Cinema
Adrain Martin
Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat
Films and Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling
Drehli Robnik
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Pictures (with credits)
Index of Film Titles