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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lev, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292798373; 9783110745344
• DOI: 10.7560/747159
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Lev.

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.