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By Charles Taylor

ISBN-10: 1632868180

ISBN-13: 9781632868183

ISBN-10: 1681685124

ISBN-13: 9781681685120

"Movie criticism's Dostoyevsky . . . Taylor finds a countrywide identification cast from the innocence we declare to have misplaced yet by no means had within the first place.” --Steve Erickson, writer of Zeroville

When we expect of '70s cinema, we expect of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch . . . however the riches present in the ignored B videos of the time, rolled out at any place they may locate an viewers, suddenly inform an eye-opening tale approximately post-Watergate, post-Vietnam the USA. Revisiting the movies that do not make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor unearths a treasury many folks have forgotten, video clips that during truth "unlock the secrets and techniques of the times."

Celebrated movie critic Taylor can pay homage to the trucker vigilantes, meat mogul pimps, blaxploitation "angel avengers," and taciturn manufacturing facility staff of grungy, unartful B motion pictures akin to Prime Cut, Foxy Brown, and Eyes of Laura Mars. He creates a compelling argument for what concerns in moviemaking and brings a pivotal American period vividly to lifestyles in all its gritty, depression complexity.

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