Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The ‘New Wave’ and ‘Old Hollywood’: The Day of the Locust (1975), ‘Movies About the Movies’ and the Generational Divide

Chapter 3 ‘The Birth of Black Consciousness on the Screen’?: The African American Historical Experience, Blaxploitation and the Production and Reception of Sounder (1972)

Chapter 4 ‘Having Our Cake and Eating It’: The Dirty Dozen (1967), the World War II Combat Film and the Vietnam War

Chapter 6 American Graffiti (1973) and Grease (1978): The Fifties as Myth and Comment

Chapter 7 Conclusion