This book's solidly interdisciplinary framing sustains richly detailed research and analysis. It will speak to broad audiences across film, media, and cultural studies, as well as gender and women's studies and critical race theory. Palis's analysis takes the most subtle and incisive type of approach to questions of both the canon and authorship. Her argument bypasses more traditional, additive or inclusive canon 'revision' in favor of a radical reshaping, reframing,
and re-contextualizing of the canonical history of U.S. cinema since the 'New Hollywood.
Eleni Palis is an assistant professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Screen, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Cinema Journal), [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, and Oxford Bibliographies Online.