Lateral Deviations: 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' and Questions of Authorship

It was one of Martin Scorsese's first films, and remains an outlier in his body of work, but Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an important film within the filmmaker's oeuvre, as well as in the context of 1970s Hollywood, writes Nicholas Godfrey.

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Film as Text, senior secondary, tertiary, 1970s cinema, American cinema, Ellen Burstyn, auteur theory, masculinity, commerce, stardom, New Hollywood.