Description
Book SynopsisPeter Lev persuasively argues in this book that the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be--open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.
Trade Review"The 1970s have been largely neglected in film scholarship. Lev's book is just what the field needs... [Indeed], the entire field of cinema studies needs to see more publications of the quality of this one-conscientious, thorough, well-balanced, and insightful... It's the kind of book that will become increasingly important in the next century." Paul Monaco, author of Society, Culture, and Television
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: "Nobody knows anything"
- Part 1
- Chapter 1: Hippie Generation
- Easy Rider
- Alice's Restaurant
- Five Easy Pieces
- Chapter 2: Vigilantes And Cops
- Joe
- The French Connection
- Dirty Harry
- Death Wish
- Chapter 3: Disaster and Conspiracy
- Airport
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Jaws
- The Parallax View
- Chinatown
- Chapter 4: The End Of The Sixties
- Nashville
- Shampoo
- Between the Lines
- The Return of the Secaucus Seven
- The Big Chill
- Part 2
- Chapter 5: Last Tango in Paris: Or Art, Sex, And Hollywood
- Chapter 6: Teen Films
- American Graffiti
- Cooley High
- Animal House
- Diner
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Chapter 7: General Patton and Colonel Kurtz
- Chapter 8: From Blaxploitation To African American Film
- Shaft
- Superfly
- Claudine
- Leadbelly
- Killer of Sheep
- Chapter 9: Feminisms
- Hester Street
- An Unmarried Woman
- Girlfriends
- Starting Over
- Head over Heels/Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Coming Home
- The China Syndrome
- Chapter 10: Whose Future
- Star Wars
- Alien
- Blade Runner
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Time Line, 1968-1983: American History, American Film
- Appendix 2: Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
