Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: ‘‘Nobody knows anything’’ xv
5. Part 1
6. Chapter 1: Hippie generation 3
7. Chapter 2: Vigilantes and cops 22
8. Chapter 3: Disaster and conspiracy 40
9. Chapter 4: The end of the sixties 60
10. Part 2
11. Chapter 5: Last tango in Paris: or art, sex, and hollywood 77
12. Chapter 6: Teen films 90
13. Chapter 7: General Patton and colonel Kurtz 107
14. Chapter 8: From Blaxploitation to African American film 127
15. Chapter 9: Feminisms 142
16. Chapter 10: Whose future? 165
17. Conclusion 181
18. Appendix 1: Time line, 1968–1983: american history, american film 187
19. Appendix 2: Filmography 199
20. Notes 205
21. Bibliography 221
22. Index 229