Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.

The returned image -- Art and film: New York City in the late 1970s: Jack Goldstein, Two fencers, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Amos Poe -- Generic returns - The dream has ended: Badlands, Texas Chainsaw Massacr e, The Shootist, The Last Waltz -- Re-considering the nostalgia film: A merican Graffiti, The Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show -- A return to the 1950s - the dangers in Utopia: Grease, Utopia rejected, Last Ex it to Brooklyn -- Coppola and Scorsese - authorial views: Apocalypse No w, One From the Heart, The Last Temptation of Christ -- To destroy the sign: The loss of the real, Serialized forms, The return of the classic al film Genres, The stalker film, The Western, The gangster/crime film.

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