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American films of the 70s : conflicting visions / / Peter Lev



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Autore: Lev Peter <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: American films of the 70s : conflicting visions / / Peter Lev Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (63 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 791.43/75/097309047
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - United States - History
Performing arts - United States - History
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: While 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.
Altri titoli varianti: American films of the seventies
Titolo autorizzato: American films of the 70s  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780292778092
0292778090
9780292798373
0292798377
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806146303321
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