CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Prologue (2003)

1.  Cards on the Table

2.  The Chase: Flashback, 1965

3.  Smart-Ass and Cutie-Pie: Notes Toward the Evaluation of Altman (1975)

4.  The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the 70s

5.  The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s

6.  Normality and Monsters: The Films of Larry Cohen and George Romero

7.  Brian De Palma: The Politics of Castration

8.  Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era

9.  Horror in the 80s

10.  Images and Women

11.  From Buddies to Lovers

12.  Two Films by Martin Scorsese

13.  Two Films by Michael Cimino

14.  Day of the Dead: The Woman’s Nightmare

15.  On and Around My Best Friend’s Wedding

16.  Teens, Parties, and Rollercoasters: A Genre of the 90s

17.  Hollywood Today: Is an Oppositional Cinema Possible?

Bibliography

Index