Goodbye to All That: Lost Innocence and Anti-nostalgia in 'The Last Picture Show'

Joanna Di Mattia looks at the symbolism and narrative techniques of Peter Bogdanovich's unglamorised, unsentimental depiction of 1950s small-town America.

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Film as Text, Larry McMurtry, generational change, coming-of-age, teenage, Vietnam War, American Graffiti, middle-class, Americana, country, western