Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Part One Introductions -- The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 -- "The Last Good Time We Ever Had": Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema -- American Auteur Cinema: The Last - or First - Great Picture Show -- Part Two Histories -- The Decade When Movies Mattered -- A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) -- The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold -- New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot -- Part Three People and Places -- Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile -- "The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name": The Films of Monte Hellman -- Nashville contra Jaws, or "The Imagination of Disaster" Revisited -- For Wanda -- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock -- Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick's War Movie -- Part Four Critical Debates -- The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero -- Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood's Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) -- Grim Fascination: FINGERS, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema -- Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films and Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Pictures (with credits) -- Index of Film Titles.