Bishop, Daniel - The Presence of the Past

This book is about American films from the late sixties and early seventies, how they use music and sound to foreground an imagined engagement with the lived immediacy of experience, and how this experience is related to the idea of the historical past.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the New Hollywood
Chapter 1: Bonnie and Clyde and the Aural Imagination of American Counterculture
Chapter 2: The Revisionist Western and the Mythic Past
Chapter 3: The Mythic Elements of Chinatown
Chapter 4: Radio, Memory, and the Past in the Nostalgia Film
Chapter 5: Badlands and the Music of Temporal Imminence
Bibliography
Index

Series	Oxford Music / Media