03960nam 2200709Ia 450 991080614630332120240912165806.09780292778092ebook0292778090ebook9780292798373029279837710.7560/747159(CKB)111090425017246(OCoLC)234084020(CaPaEBR)ebrary10194811(SSID)ssj0000102073(PQKBManifestationID)11124556(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102073(PQKBWorkID)10043510(PQKB)11102002(OCoLC)55889987(MdBmJHUP)muse1936(Au-PeEL)EBL3443133(CaPaEBR)ebr10194811(Au-PeEL)EBL7171669(OCoLC)1382693549(DE-B1597)588310(DE-B1597)9780292798373(MiAaPQ)EBC3443133(MiAaPQ)EBC7171669(MiAaPQ)EBC3443665(EXLCZ)9911109042501724619991014d2000 ub 0engurcn#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican films of the 70s conflicting visions /Peter Lev1st ed.Austin, TX University of Texas Press20001 online resource (63 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0292747152 0292747160 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: ''Nobody knows anything'' --Part 1 --Chapter 1: Hippie generation --Chapter 2: Vigilantes and cops --Chapter 3: Disaster and conspiracy --Chapter 4: The end of the sixties --Part 2 --Chapter 5: Last tango in Paris: or art, sex, and hollywood --Chapter 6: Teen films --Chapter 7: General Patton and colonel Kurtz --Chapter 8: From Blaxploitation to African American film --Chapter 9: Feminisms --Chapter 10: Whose future? --Conclusion --Appendix 1: Time line, 1968-1983: american history, american film --Appendix 2: Filmography --Notes --Bibliography --IndexWhile the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and disco musicals to a loving look at General George S. Patton. Indeed, as Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book, 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. Examining forty films thematically, Lev explores the conflicting visions presented in films with the following kinds of subject matter: Hippies (Easy Rider, Alice's Restaurant) Cops (The French Connection, Dirty Harry) Disasters and conspiracies (Jaws, Chinatown) End of the Sixties (Nashville, The Big Chill) Art, Sex, and Hollywood (Last Tango in Paris) Teens (American Graffiti, Animal House) War (Patton, Apocalypse Now) African-Americans (Shaft, Superfly) Feminisms (An Unmarried Woman, The China Syndrome) Future visions (Star Wars, Blade Runner) As accessible to ordinary moviegoers as to film scholars, Lev's book is an essential companion to these familiar, well-loved movies.American films of the seventiesMotion picturesUnited StatesHistoryPerforming artsUnited StatesHistoryMotion picturesHistory.Performing artsHistory.791.43/75/097309047Lev Peter1948-778732MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806146303321American films of the 70s4092377UNINA