Lost Illusions

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Contents
Preface: A Time of Illusion
A Note on Box-Office Revenues
A Note on Aspect Ratios

1 Introduction: A Decade of Change
2 Formative Industry Trends, 1970--1979
3 Manufacturing the Blockbuster:
The "Newest Art Form of the Twentieth Century"
4 The Auteur Cinema: Directors and Directions
in the "Hollywood Renaissance"
5 Genres 1: Revision, Transformation, and Revival
6 Genres II: Exploitation and Allusion
7 Orders of Magnitude I: Majors, Mini-Majors,
"Instant Majors," and Independents
8 Orders of Magnitude II: Costs, Agents, Stars
9 Technological Innovation and Aesthetic Response
10 Motion Picture Exhibition in 1970s America
Douglas Gornery
11 Looking Back and Turning Inward:
American Documentary Films of the Seventies
William Rothman
12 Avant-Garde Cinema of the Seventies
Robin Blaetz

Avant-Garde Cinema Filmography
Appendixes:
APPENDIX 1 ANNUAL U.S. BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS, 1970-1979
APPENDIX 2 AVERAGE WEEKLY ATTENDANCE, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 3 INFLATION 1970-1g8o, ACCORDING TO "CONSUMER PRICE INDEX"
FIGURES COMPILED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMEHCE
APPENDIX 4 AVERAGE TICKET PRICE IN THE U.S. EACH YEAR, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 5 NUMBER OF MOVIE THEATERS IN THE U.S., 1970-1980
APPENDIX 6 MAJOR COMPANY SHARE OF NEW RELEASES HANDLED BY
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 7 MARKET DOMINATION BY SIX LEADING DISTRIBUTORS OF
THEATRICAL FILMS, 1977 AND 1980
APPENDIX 8 MARKETING EXPENSES FOR MAJOR RELEASES, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 9 MAJOR STUDIO REVENUES AND AFTER-TAX PROFITS, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 10 LATE SIXTIES FLOPS
APPENDIX 11 HIT MOVIES OF THE 1968-1969 SEASON
APPENDIX 12 TOP TwENTY RENTAL FILMS, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 13 NORTH AMERICAN RENTALS IN EXCESS OF $22.25
MILLION, 1970-1980
APPENDIX 14 MAJOR ACADEMY AWARDS, 1970-1980

Notes
Bibliography
Picture Sources
General Index
Index of Films