New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness : Affective Affinities and the Politics of Male Expressivity

In the late 1960s, the white counterculture enters the screens with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider; in 1976, a backlash seems to have taken place with white male protagonists such as Travis Bickle, Howard Beale, and Rocky Balboa being surrounded by non-white and female others. But these films canno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kadritzke, Till
Format: eBook
Language:Undetermined
Published: De Gruyter 2024
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Easy Riders, Lost Selves: Countercultural Whiteness and the Politics of Expressivity
  • Chapter 2. Countercultural Fantasies of Untamed Motion
  • Chapter 3. Countercultural Fantasies of Emotional Truth
  • Chapter 4 The Countercultural Romance of Madness
  • Films
  • Works Cited
  • Index