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The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the ba ckdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Franci s Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist Cinema, Jeff Menne rewrites the history of this period, argu ing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywoods corporate project.Menne traces the surprising affinities between auteur t...[Llegir més]