American Films of the 70s

Peter Lev is Professor of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland.

• Preface Introduction: "Nobody knows anything" Part 1 Chapter 1: Hippie Generation Easy Rider Alice's Restaurant Five Easy Pieces Chapter 2: Vigilantes And Cops Joe The French Connection Dirty Harry Death Wish Chapter 3: Disaster and Conspiracy Airport The Poseidon Adventure Jaws The Parallax View Chinatown Chapter 4: The End Of The Sixties Nashville Shampoo Between the Lines The Return of the Secaucus Seven The Big Chill Part 2 Chapter 5: Last Tango in Paris: Or Art, Sex, And Hollywood Chapter 6: Teen Films American Graffiti Cooley High Animal House Diner Fast Times at Ridgemont High Chapter 7: General Patton and Colonel Kurtz Patton Apocalypse Now Chapter 8: From Blaxploitation To African American Film Shaft Superfly Claudine Leadbelly Killer of Sheep Chapter 9: Feminisms Hester Street An Unmarried Woman Girlfriends Starting Over Head over Heels/Chilly Scenes of Winter Coming Home The China Syndrome Chapter 10: Whose Future Star Wars Alien Blade Runner Conclusion Appendix 1: Time Line, 1968-1983: American History, American Film Appendix 2: Filmography Notes Bibliography Index

"The 1970s have been largely neglected in film scholarship. Lev's book is just what the field needs... [Indeed], the entire field of cinema studies needs to see more publications of the quality of this one-conscientious, thorough, well-balanced, and insightful... It's the kind of book that will become increasingly important in the next century." Paul Monaco, author of Society, Culture, and Television