Hollywood From Vietnam To Reagan; Author: Wood, Robin; Hardback; Book

Author: Wood, Robin
Hardback; Book
328 pages
Published: November 1987
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231057776
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In this series of provocative, interrelated essays, Robin Wood analyzes 1970s films affected by the ideological crises in America precipitated by Watergate and the Vietnam war, and assembles his much-discussed but hiterto scattered and inaccessible work on the modern horror film. The book also analyzes the complex and problematic films of Brian De Palma, attacks the 1980s fantasy cinemaof Lucas and Spielberg, examines the work of women directors, and celebrates the films of Scorcese and Michael Cimino.Looks at how politics have influenced the films of the seventies and eighties, discusses the modern horror film, and considers the films of DePalma, Cimino, Scorsese, and Altman.