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.