Contemporary US Cinema (Paperback, Annotated Ed)

Discusses important developments in American filmmaking over the past three decades, examining change and continuity within the context of earlier classic Hollywood movies.

The book divides into nine comprehensive and provocative chapters exploring, for example, directors, genres, and new developments in film making. Michael Allen offers a survey of significant events and trends from the past thirty years of American cinema and combines this with a detailed exploration of its most important figures and individual works.