Article:
After the Fall. Hollywood Cinema and the Redefinition of America in the 1970s

Simple item page
dc.creatorCarstensen, Thorsten
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-08T14:30:55Z
dc.date.available2021-06-08T14:30:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis manuscript traces Hollywood’s response to the disintegration of U.S. national consensus in the 1970s under the spell of Vietnam and Watergate, with a strong focus on the representation of masculinity. In my comparative reading of several canonized movies of the 1970s (The Deer Hunter, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Rocky), I demonstrate how Hollywood cinema, amid America’s struggle to redefine its shared values and regain its self-confidence, advocated a return to myths of the past in order for the country to rewrite what historians have called the narrative of “victory culture.” As it is, arguably, in popular culture where societal changes manifest themselves most readily, I look at these films in the wider context of 1970s television, demonstrating connections with TV dramas such as Bonanza and The Waltons. I conclude with an outlook on the Reagan presidency and the rise to prominence of right-wing sequels such as Rambo II and Rocky IV as the seemingly inevitable consequences of 1970s disintegration.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16152
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/16994
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDe Gruyter
dc.publisher.placeBerlin
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2451-1765
dc.relation.ispartofseriesKulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
dc.subjectHollywood Cinemaen
dc.subjectPopular Cultureen
dc.subjectAmerican Studiesen
dc.subjectTelevision Studiesen
dc.subject1970s United Statesen
dc.subjectFilm criticsmen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleAfter the Fall. Hollywood Cinema and the Redefinition of America in the 1970sen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-06-08T16:40:03
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.2478/kwg-2019-0093
local.source.epage112
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage95
local.source.volume4

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
KWZ_4_2_2019_95-112_Carstensen_After_the_fall_.pdf
Size:
742.58 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Original PDF with additional cover page.
Download

Collections

2019 (2)