American Film History: 1960 To The Present

• Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11.
• Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview
• Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, includingMidnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future,Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others.
• Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online.
• May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium

Cynthia Lucia is Professor of English and Director of Film and Media Studies at Rider University. She is author ofFraming Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film (2005) and writes for Cineaste film magazine, where she has served on the editorial board for more than two decades. Her most recent research includes essays that appear inA Companion to Woody Allen (Wiley, 2013), Modern British Drama on Screen (2014), andLaw, Culture and Visual Studies (2014).

Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Boston University. He is the author ofAndy Warhol’s Blow Job (2003) and the editor of A Companion to Michael Haneke (Wiley 2010). He is Contributing Editor ofCineaste and has published essays in a range of prestigious anthologies and journals, includingGLQ, Cineaste, Continuum, The Velvet Light Trap, and Millennium Film Journal. He has curated retrospectives on Michael Haneke, Andy Warhol, and Matthias Muller.

Art Simon is Professor of Film Studies at Montclair State University. He is the author ofDangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film (2^nd edition, 2013). He has curated two film exhibitions for the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York City and his work has been published in the edited collection“Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (2007) and in the journalAmerican Jewish History.

Together they are the editors of the four volume reference work, The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film (2012),of this volume and its companion, American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 ( both 2016), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.