{"product_id":"hard-hats-rednecks-and-macho-derek-nystrom-9780195336764","title":"Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema","description":"Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to \u003cem\u003eEasy Rider\u003c\/em\u003e, murdering the film's representatives of countercultural alienation and disaffection. They lurk in the Georgia woods of \u003cem\u003eDeliverance\u003c\/em\u003e, attacking outsiders in a manner that evokes the South's recent history of racial violence and upheaval. They haunt the singles nightclubs of \u003cem\u003eLooking for Mr. Goodbar\u003c\/em\u003e, threatening the film's newly liberated heroine with patriarchal violence. They strut through the disco clubs of \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Fever\u003c\/em\u003e, dancing to music whose roots in post-Stonewall homosexuality invite ambiguity that the men ignore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eHard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the persistent appearance of working-class characters in these and other films of the 1970s reveals the powerful role class played in the key social and political developments of the decade, such as the decline of the New Left and counterculture, the re-emergence of the South as the Sunbelt, and the rise of the women's and gay liberation movements. Examining the \"youth cult\" film, the neo-Western \"southern,\" and the \"new nightlife\" film, Nystrom shows how these cinematic renderings of white working-class masculinity actually tell us more about the crises facing the middle class during the 1970s than about working-class experience itself. \u003cem\u003eHard Hats\u003c\/em\u003e thus demonstrates how these representations of the working class serve as fantasies about a class Other-fantasies that offer imaginary resolutions to middle-class anxieties provoked by the decade's upheavals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on examples of iconic films from the era-\u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Fever, Cruising, Five Easy Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWalking Tall\u003c\/em\u003e, among others-Nystrom presents an incisive, evocative study of class and American cinema during one of the nation's most tumultuous decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Nystrom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195336763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195336764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/13\/2009 pg. 17","brand":"Derek Nystrom","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47420195471615,"sku":"9780195336764","price":96.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68c5b441-05b2-4d71-98c7-782830c4e9dd.jpg?v=1761525874","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hard-hats-rednecks-and-macho-derek-nystrom-9780195336764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}