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

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