Buckle up and hit the gas-Hollywood Horsepower is your ultimate joyride through the most iconic, adrenaline-pumping, scene-stealing cars ever to hit the silver screen. From the time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the Future to the bullet-dodging Aston Martins of James Bond, Hollywood Horsepower is a celebration of the four-wheeled legends that roared into pop culture history.
The Golden Age of the car-chase film-roughly 1966 to 1980-wasn't confined to a backlot or a green screen. It was forged from screeching tires and roaring engines that did not need a sound designer to bring them to life. Filmmakers amplified car culture, stylized it, and sent it back into the world in ever more exciting forms. Hollywood Horsepower puts a spotlight on those filmmakers and the cars that changed the course of cinema, tracing the evolution of car-centric movies from The Silent Era, through the '70s Golden Age, to today. Packed with archival photography and automotive knowledge, Hollywood Horsepower is a tribute to the film and automotive industries, showcasing their parallel coming of age, and the ways they informed and shaped the notions of movement, freedom, and modern life as we know it.
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Contents
Introduction: Start Your Engines
A Short Guide for the Uninitiated
The Silent Era
The 1930s
The 1940s
The 1950s
Rebels Without a Cause: The Early Hot Rod Movies of the Late '40s and Early '50s
The 1960s
Silver Bullet: How the DB5 Defined James Bond
Bond Cars Throughout the Decades
Bullitt(1968)
The Italian Job (1969)
The 1970s
Vanishing Point (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Vengeance in Motion: The Italian Connection and Tony Arzenta
Duel (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop(1971)
The Getaway (1972)
Fear Is the Key (1972)
American Graffiti (1973)
The Stone Killer (1973)
The Daredevil(1973)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry(1974)
Truck Turner(1974)
Race with the Devil (1975)
Cannonball!(1976)
The Gumball Rally (1976)
Smokey and the Bandit(1977)
The Driver (1978)
H. B. Halicki
Grease(1978)
The 1980s
Custom-Built Screen Icons
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Christine (1983)
Cobra (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
The 1990s
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
The 2000s and Beyond
Death Proof(2007)
Form over Function at 100 mph: Vintage Vehicles in Modern Movies
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index
