Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond

by Robin Paul Wood and Robin Wood

Book Overview

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be read-that in which it was written and that in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023112967X
• ISBN13: 9780231129671
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

a little balance to the equation

The one-star review below has been bugging me for a long time. That evaluation is inane and absurd, an insult to a film scholar whom even the reviewer acknowledges is important. Sure, Wood's interpretive scheme may be occasionally a little heavy-handed, but I find he's usually right on the mark. (If The Omen isn't a reactionary film, I've never seen one.) And his frank views about sexuality I find brave and refreshing, especially in the repressed era we're going through at the moment. The reviewer below says he's a feminist-- yeeaahhh.... I see a genuine feminism in Wood-- but not in his detractor.