Hollywood's last golden age : politics, society, and the seventies film in America /

Kirshner, Jonathan, 1964-

Hollywood's last golden age : politics, society, and the seventies film in America / Jonathan Kirshner. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2012. - x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before the flood -- Talkin' 'bout my generation -- 1968, Nixon, and the inward turn -- The personal is political -- Crumbling cities and revisionist history -- Privacy, paranoia, disillusion, and betrayal -- White knights in existential despair -- Businessmen drink my wine -- Appendix : 100 "seventies" films of the last golden age.

From Chinatown to Night Moves, how key "seventies" films important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times.

9780801478161 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801478162 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos --Siglo XX
Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
Cine--Aspectos sociales--Estados Unidos


United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

PN 1993.5 / K61h 2012

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