American Films of The 70s : Conflicting Visions / Peter Lev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lev, Peter, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

American Films of The Seventies

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292778092

0292778090

9780292798373

0292798377

OCLC:

234084020