Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema

Acknowledgements PART I An Introduction to Narrative Incongruity CHAPTER 1 Poetics of Seventies Cinema CHAPTER 2 Narrative Incongruity in Seventies Cinema PART II Modes of Narration in Seventies Films CHAPTER 3 Narrative Frustration: From The Godfather to The Godfather, Part II CHAPTER 4 Genre Deviation and The French Connection CHAPTER 5 Conceptual Incongruity and The Exorcist PART III Incongruity's Endpoints CHAPTER 6 Incongruity and Unity in Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver CHAPTER 7 John Cassavetes's Radical Narration Conclusion APPENDIX A Best Films of the 1970s: Best Picture Awards, Critics Lists and Other Rankings, and Box Office Grosses APPENDIX B Study of Film Incoherence APPENDIX C Study of the Degree of Resolution of Film Endings APPENDIX D Study of Best Picture Lists and Incoherence Notes Bibliography Index