Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you
Subtitle: the shadow cinema of the American '70s
By: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781632868183
Subjects: B films; Motion pictures; History and criticism; History
Description: "When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch. but the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the secrets of the times." Celebrated film critic Taylor pays homage to the trucker vigilantes, meat magnate pimps, blaxploitation "angel avengers," and taciturn factory workers of grungy, unartful B films such as Prime Cut, Foxy Brown, and Eyes of Laura Mars. He creates a compelling argument for what matters in moviemaking and brings a pivotal American era vividly to life in all its gritty, melancholy complexity."--
Notes: Includes filmography (pages 191-197).
Table of contents: title: Prevues of coming attractions; title: On the hoof, on the barrel: Prime Cut; title: The challenger: Vanishing Point; title: Farewell to the first golden era: Cisco Pike; title: Bebop/silence: Hickey & Boggs; title: Shut down, volume 2: Two-land Blacktop; title: A queen without a throne: Coffy and Foxy Brown; title: White man's burden: Ulzana's Raid; title: Aloha and good night, two by Floyd Mutrux: Aloha, Bobby and Rose and American Hot Wax; title: Stranger in town: Hard Times; title: E pluribus loonum: Citizens Band; title: The goosing of the President: Winter Kills; title: Eye of the beholders: Eyes of Laura Mars; title: Even the losers: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; title: When the lights go up.