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American Films of the 70s - Conflicting Visions (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R615
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American Films of the 70s - Conflicting Visions (Paperback, New): Peter Lev

American Films of the 70s - Conflicting Visions (Paperback, New)

Peter Lev

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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 teen comedies to haunting views of a divided America at war. 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 within ten different film genres or subjects:
-- 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.

General

Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2000
First published: 2000
Authors: Peter Lev
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 260
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-74716-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-292-74716-0
Barcode: 9780292747166

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