Contents

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Introduction: Open Roads

1. Which New Hollywood?

2. Easy Rider

Part I: Variations on a Theme: Five Easy Riders

3. Five Easy Pieces

4. Two-Lane Blacktop

5. Vanishing Point

6. Little Fauss and Big Halsy

7. Adam at 6 A.M.

Part II: Politicizing Genre

8. Dirty Harry

9. The French Connection

Part III: The Limits of Auteurism

10. The Last Movie

11. The Hired Hand

Conclusion: The End of the Road

Acknowledgments