Description: Jeff Menne rewrites the history of the New Hollywood boom of the late 196s and 197s, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood's corporate project. Post-Fordist Cinema sheds new light on the cultural myth of the great director and the birth of the "creative economy."
Brief description: Jeff Menne is assistant professor and program director of Screen Studies at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Francis Ford Coppola (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Film and the American Presidency (Routledge, 2015). His work has been published in Cinema Journal, Postmodern Culture, and Post Script.
Review Quotes: Menne has produced a masterful study in which close readings of key films of the post-studio era are informed by an understanding of large-scale socioeconomic trends and evolving institutional arrangements. Deeply researched and carefully argued, Post-Fordist Cinema represents a new and promising direction for the field.--Virginia Wright Wexman, author of Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance