Robin Wood

Recently finished Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan...and Beyond, and mind sufficiently blown. Love his bit on the motorcycle sequence in My Bodyguard though I do wish he'd dedicated more than a couple of sentences to it. His other works seem to be more single-artist-centric (on Hitchcock, or Godard, for example), which I'm not necessarily uninterested in reading (though probably much more likely to check out his Hitchcock writings), but has he written anything else comparable in scope to this?

Wood has a lot of praise for the obscure late 90s Canadian teen drama Rollercoaster in Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan...and Beyond, so I was excited to stumble upon it on television tonight, but it is unfortunately quite dreary. Way too typical of the era's Sundance fare, which basically means it is kind of a cross between the hysterical "grittiness" of Larry Clark's Kids (though considerably tamer) and the mythopoetic Malick-isms of David Gordon Green's George Washington (though this film predates that one by about a year). If the film is notable for any reason today, it is likely because the female lead is the sister of Michael Buble.