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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455248503321

Autore

Nystrom Derek

Titolo

Hard hats, rednecks, and macho men [[electronic resource] ] : class in 1970s American cinema / / Derek Nystrom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-32875-1

9786612328756

0-19-971432-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

791.43635262

Soggetti

Working class in motion pictures

Rednecks in motion pictures

Men, White, in motion pictures

Masculinity in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Making Class Visible in Film and Cultural Studies; PART I: HARD HATS AND MOVIE BRATS; 1 Class and the Youth-Cult Cycle; PART II: REDNECKS AND GOOD OLE BOYS: THE RISE OF THE SOUTHERN; 2 Deliverance, An Allegory of the Sunbelt; 3 Keep On Truckin': The Southern Cycle and the Invention of the Good Ole Boy; PART III: MACHO MEN AND THE NEW NIGHTLIFE FILM; 4 Saturday Night Fever and the Queering of the White, Working-Class Male Body; 5 Extra Masculinity: Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Cruising; Conclusion: Working-Class Solidarity and Its Others

Afterword: Hard Hats Revisited: The Labor of 9/11Notes; Works Cited; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Everywhere you look in 1970's American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to Easy Rider, murdering the film's representatives of countercultural alienation and disaffection. They lurk in the Georgia woods of Deliverance, attacking outsiders in a manner that evokes the South's recent history of racial



violence and upheaval. They haunt the singles nightclubs of Looking for Mr. Goodbar, threatening the film's newly liberated heroine with patriarchal violence. They strut through the disco clubs of Saturday Night Fever, dancing to music whose roots in...