A while ago a new review landed for New Wave, New Hollywood: Recovery, Reassessment and Legacy, edited by Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame in Film Matters, a journal from Intellect that resides behind a paywall, but can be accessed via some institutional log-ins. By Maria Caravousanos, it’s a generally positive overview of the work, describing it as ‘an engaging and fresh approach to the preexisting scholarship that opens a myriad of critical potential’. In terms of my own chapter, ‘Formal Radicalism vs. Radical Representation: Reassessing The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) and Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)’, Maria has this to say, ‘Cary Edwards synthesizes a comprehensive reassessment of the films The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) and Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971) through the combination of reception studies and textual analysis to question what distinctions qualify a film as part of the New Wave canon,’ which is pretty fair description. New Wave, New Hollywood is available direct from Bloomsbury, or anywhere good books are sold.
