num_pages: 736
description: The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s the epoch of leisure suits and Afros the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the cold war continued to escalate Hollywood began to heat up recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars Jaws The Exorcist and The Godfather. Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon: the blockbuster. Meanwhile across the Atlantic while the Nouvelle Vague died out in France its influence extended to Germany where the New German Cinema of Fassbinder Wenders and Herzog had its heyday. The sexual revolution made its way to the silver screen (cautiously in the US more freely in Europe) most notably in Bertolucci's steamy scandalous Last Tango in Paris. Amidst all this came a wave of nostalgic films (The Sting American Graffiti) and Vietnam pictures (Apocalypse Now The Deer Hunter) the rise of the anti-hero (Robert De Niro Al Pacino Dustin Hoffman) and the prestigious short-lived genre blaxploitation.140 A-Z film entries include:- Synopsis- Film stills and production photos- Cast/crew listings- Box office figures- Trivia- Useful information on technical stuff- Actor and director biosPlus: a complete Academy Awards list for the decade
language: English
title: Movies of the 70s
publisher: TASCHEN