a ISBN 0-520-23265-8

a Original cataloging agency

a Classification number PN1993.5.U6

b Item number H55 2002

a Dewey Classification 384/.8/0973

a Personal name Cook David A

a Title Lost illusions :

b Remainder of title American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 /

c Statement of responsibility, etc David A. Cook.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Charles Scribner's Sons,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2002.

a Extent xxii, 695 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 26 cm.

a Title History of the American cinema ;

v Volume number/sequential designation v. 9

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-594) and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction : a decade of change -- Formative industry trends, 1970-1979 -- Manufacturing the blockbuster : the "newest art form of the twentieth century" -- The auteur cinema : directors and directions in the "Hollywood renaissance" -- Genres I : revision, transformation, and revival -- Genres II : exploitation and allusion -- Orders of magnitude I : majors, mini-majors, "instant majors," and independents -- Orders of magnitude II : costs, agents, stars -- Technological innovation and aesthetic response -- Motion picture exhibition in 1970s America / Douglas Gomery -- Looking back and turning inward : American documentary films of the seventies / William Rothman -- Avant-garde cinema of the seventies / Robin Blaetz.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Motion picture industry