Deliverance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Carrie
Dog Day Afternoon
Marathon Man
Dirty Harry
3 Days of the Condor
The Parralx View
Catch 22
Billy Jack
The Born Losers
Norma Rae
Holy fudge, Dirty Harry! You might have a bingo right there. It captures well the emerging conservative backlash against institutions and social interpretations of deviance.
Question why were disaster films so popular in the 70s? And biker films.
Disaster because of the frustrations of the past decades, which felt like one fucking disaster after another. It was wallowing in it all. Biker films could be seen as a co-opting of rebellion and frustration. It's fantasy.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Deliverance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Carrie
Dog Day Afternoon
Marathon Man
Dirty Harry
3 Days of the Condor
The Parralx View
Catch 22
Billy Jack
The Born Losers
Norma Rae
Holy fudge, Dirty Harry! You might have a bingo right there. It captures well the emerging conservative backlash against institutions and social interpretations of deviance.
Deliverance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Carrie
Dog Day Afternoon
Marathon Man
Dirty Harry
3 Days of the Condor
The Parralx View
Catch 22
Billy Jack
The Born Losers
Norma Rae
Holy fudge, Dirty Harry! You might have a bingo right there. It captures well the emerging conservative backlash against institutions and social interpretations of deviance.
The rebirth of bloodlust
I've talked about that film in my popular culture class to explain a concept called "structure of feeling," where cultural products give evidence of a mood even if it's not a proper ideological document. DH captures that growing cynicism toward institutions, public life, and basic decency. What does it take to achieve justice? Going rogue and being a nasty SOB, matching the bad guys one cruel act for another. Take that, Great Society! Yeah, I'm almost certainly going to use that one for one of the films. (It's also just entertaining as hell, even if I'm repulsed by the politics of it.)
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Also the movie made about the Wounded Knee protest. Just called Wounded Knee I thi k
Gotta think of some others
Yeah, I'm going to ask The Boss if she knows if there's a solid documentary about Red Power. There's also an American Experience documentary about Stonewall that I'll take a look at. My disco lecture mentions Stonewall but doesn't really get into it in a meaningful way beyond the links between disco and increasing out-of-the-closet gay life.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Also the movie made about the Wounded Knee protest. Just called Wounded Knee I thi k
Gotta think of some others
Yeah, I'm going to ask The Boss if she knows if there's a solid documentary about Red Power. There's also an American Experience documentary about Stonewall that I'll take a look at. My disco lecture mentions Stonewall but doesn't really get into it in a meaningful way beyond the links between disco and increasing out-of-the-closet gay life.
Milk biopic might be an option for lbtq 70s too
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Also the movie made about the Wounded Knee protest. Just called Wounded Knee I thi k
Gotta think of some others
Yeah, I'm going to ask The Boss if she knows if there's a solid documentary about Red Power. There's also an American Experience documentary about Stonewall that I'll take a look at. My disco lecture mentions Stonewall but doesn't really get into it in a meaningful way beyond the links between disco and increasing out-of-the-closet gay life.
Milk biopic might be an option for lbtq 70s too
Yup, tho I'm inclined to stay away from films made outside the decade, documentaries aside. As is, upon reconsideration, if I wanted something on the Weather Underground, I'd go with the 1976 documentary Underground, made when they were, nominally, still a thing. I'd like students to approach the films not just as narratives and interpretations, but as evidence of the times that produced them. Harlan County, USA fits that bill well.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
You could show Saturday Night Fever and then show Summer of Sam to show how punks loved The Who.
If I watched SoS again, I don't know whether I'd laugh more or just fume. I know that I've unfairly held it against Adrian Brody ever since, as if he wrote and directed that coiler.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I loved the flick, but fair enough criticisms. I guess the ending is pretty different than the book, but I haven't read it so I couldn't tell you in what ways.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
I loved the flick, but fair enough criticisms. I guess the ending is pretty different than the book, but I haven't read it so I couldn't tell you in what ways.
I liked it a lot, wife loved it
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
A Futile and Stupid Gestures. A comedic biography/history of Doug Kenney and National Lampoon. It's … uneven. There's stuff that's guffaw funny, but when it balances off the funny it feels listless. Worth watching overall, but it's for the moments, not the whole. Bonus fun points for Joel McHale playing Chevy Chase. What must have been going thru his mind …
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
A Futile and Stupid Gestures. A comedic biography/history of Doug Kenney and National Lampoon. It's … uneven. There's stuff that's guffaw funny, but when it balances off the funny it feels listless. Worth watching overall, but it's for the moments, not the whole. Bonus fun points for Joel McHale playing Chevy Chase. What must have been going thru his mind …
