Lecture 15 (2007): American Film in the 1970s, Part I
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Dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s & early 70s linked with the period's turbulent social history, and with TV supplanting film as the medium for consensus narrative. Discuss Jack Nicholson/Five Easy Pieces; Altman's The Long Goodbye, MASH.
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