The French New Wave, American genre movies and 'Esquire Magazine' align in Hollywood: the screenplay by David Newman and Robert Benton, illustrated; separate pieces by the screenwriters, also Arthur Penn, and Robert Towne; interviews with Arthur Penn (two, one by the French, the other by Curtis Lee Hanson), one with Warren Beatty; and eight contemporary secondary sources: Andrew Sarris, Bosley Crowther, Pauline Kael, Tom Milne, John Coleman, Judith Crist, Joseph Morgenstern, and Hollis Alpert.
