num_pages: 718
description: The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but allowed for the expansion of exploitation films as well. So while unprecedented social and political commentary emanated from the film-school-trained "New Hollywood" auteurs, the bigger change was the major studios' embrace of sensationalist content, mass advertising, and saturation booking. The methods of fringe exploitation producers became the norm.Some of the films discussed in this book include:  Five Easy Pieces ,  Chinatown ,  Carnal Knowledge ,  Straw Dogs ,  A Clockwork Orange ,  Mean Streets ,  The Conversation ,  Nashville ,  Shampoo ,  Taxi Driver , and  Apocalypse Now .
language: English
title: Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
titlecomplete: Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
genres: Film, Media Tie In, Reference, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 38
series: History of the American Cinema
publisher: University of California Press