Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:11:50 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: 70s movies (including Network)/New Right


Is Death Wish the Bronson shoot-a-rama with a the Herbie Hancock soundtrack?
If so, the soundtrack is awesome.

Thiago


On 2/12/02 4:30 PM, "Thomas Seay" <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:

> Interesting indeed.  However,  I am surprized they
> didn't mention the ultimate middle-class backlash film
> of the period:
> "Death Wish".
> 
> Thomas
> --- Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I found this of interest:
>> 
>> 
> http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/MCkellner/HOLSOC.html
>> 
>> "During this period as well, the culture wars that
>> had
>> raged since the 1960s were reproduced in Hollywood
>> films. As the 1970s progressed, conservative films
>> were becoming more popular (e.g. Rocky, Star Wars,
>> Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, et al)
>> indicating that conservative sentiments were growing
>> in the public and that Hollywood was nurturing these
>> political currents. Indeed, even liberal films
>> ultimately helped advance the conservative cause. A
>> cycle of liberal political conspiracy films (e.g.
>> The
>> Parallex View, All the President's Men, The Domino
>> Principle, Winter Kills, and so on) vilified the
>> state
>> and thus played into the conservative/Reaganite
>> argument that government was the source of much
>> existing evil. Other films that took a perspective
>> sympathetic to the working class and critical of
>> business (Blue Collar, F.I.S.T., et tutti quanti),
>> blaming corrupt unions for the working class'
>> problems, while liberal films dealing with race
>> (Claudine, A Piece of the Action, and the like)
>> attacked welfare institutions and celebrated
>> individual initiative and self-help -- precisely the
>> Reaganite position. And even the most socially
>> critical films (such as the Jane Fonda films,
>> Network
>> and other Sidney Lumet films, et al) posited
>> individual solutions to social problems, thus also
>> reinforcing the conservative appeal to individualism
>> and attack on statism. Consequently, reading
>> Hollywood
>> films of the decade politically allowed one to
>> anticipate the coming of Reagan and the New Right to
>> power by demonstrating that conservative yearnings
>> were ever more popular within the culture and that
>> film and popular culture were helping to form an
>> ideological matrix more hospitable to Reagan and
>> conservatives than to embattled liberals (Kellner
>> and
>> Ryan 1988)."
>> 
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