Recycled culture in contemporary art and film : the uses of nostalgia / Vera Dika.

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2003], ©2003.

xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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 Massacre, The Shootist, The Last Waltz -- Re-considering the nostalgia film: American Graffiti, The Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show -- A return to the 1950s - the dangers in Utopia: Grease, Utopia rejected, Last Exit to Brooklyn -- Coppola and Scorsese - authorial views: Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart, The Last Temptation of Christ -- To destroy the sign: The loss of the real, Serialized forms, The return of the classical film Genres, The stalker film, The Western, The gangster/crime film.

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

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Cambridge studies in film]) Mode of access: Intranet.