Lost Illusions

David Cook documents the overshadowing of a budding American cinema for adults interested in intelligent and aesthetically rewarding films in the 1970s by heavily-marketed pop blockbusters aimed broadly at an audience looking for easy and flashy entertainment.

Acknowledgments

xi

Contributors

xiii

Preface: A Time of Illusion

xv

A Note on Box-Office Revenues

xix

A Note on Aspect Ratios

xxi

Introduction: A Decade of Change

1

(8)

Formative Industry Trends, 1970-1979

9

(16)

Manufacturing the Blockbuster: The ``Newest Art Form of the Twentieth Century''

25

(42)

The Auteur Cinema: Directors and Directions in the ``Hollywood Renaissance''

67

(92)

Genres I: Revision, Transformation, and Revival

159

(100)

Genres II: Exploitation and Allusion

259

(42)

Orders of Magnitude I: Majors, Mini-Majors, ``Instant Majors,'' and Independents

301

(36)

Orders of Magnitude II: Costs, Agents, Stars

337

(18)

Technological Innovation and Aesthetic Response

355

(42)

Motion Picture Exhibition in 1970s America

397

(20)

Douglas Gomery

Looking Back and Turning Inward: American Documentary Films of the Seventies

417

(36)

William Rothman

Avant-Garde Cinema of the Seventies

453

(26)

Robin Blaetz

Avant-Garde Cinema Filmography

479

(36)

Appendixes:

Appendix 1 Annual U.S. Box Office Receipts, 1970-1979

489

(1)

Appendix 2 Average Weekly Attendance, 1970-1980

490

(1)

Appendix 3 Inflation 1970-1980, According to ``Consumer Price Index'' Figures Compiled by the U.S. Department of Commerce

490

(1)

Appendix 4 Average Ticket Price in the U.S. Each Year, 1970-1980

491

(1)

Appendix 5 Number of Movie Theaters in the U.S., 1970-1980

491

(1)

Appendix 6 Major Company Share of New Releases Handled by National Distributors, 1970-1980

492

(1)

Appendix 7 Market Domination by Six Leading Distributors of Theatrical Films, 1977 and 1980

493

(1)

Appendix 8 Marketing Expenses for Major Releases, 1970-1980

493

(1)

Appendix 9 Major Studio Revenues and After-Tax Profits, 1970-1980

494

(2)

Appendix 10 Late Sixties Flops

496

(1)

Appendix 11 Hit Movies of the 1968-1696 Season

497

(1)

Appendix 12 Top Twenty Rental Films, 1970-1980

497

(6)

Appendix 13 North American Rentals in Excess of $22.25 Million, 1970-1980

503

(3)

Appendix 14 Major Academy Awards, 1970-1980

506

(9)

Notes

515

(46)

Bibliography

561

(34)

Picture Sources

595

(2)

General Index

597

(74)

Index of Films

671

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