The 1970s, that magical era betwixt the swinging '60s and the decadent '80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. Films that made it from 1971 onwards include Straw Dogs, Dirty Harry, the French Connection, Get Carter, Cabaret, Westworld, The Exorcist, Papillon, American Graffiti, Young Frankenstein, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, Three Days of the Condor, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Carrie, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rocky, Assault on Precinct 13, Eraserhead, Annie Hall, Dawn of the Dead, Midnight Express, Alien, The Tin Drum, Mad Max, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, The Shining and Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back in 1980. As war raged on in Vietnam and the Cold War continued to escalate, Hollywood began to heat up, recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, and The Godfather. Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas, American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon, the blockbuster. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, while the Nouvelle Vague died out in France, its influence extended to Germany, where the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Wenders, and Herzog had its heyday. The sexual revolution made its way to the silver screen (cautiously in the U.S., more freely in Europe) most notably in Bertolucci's steamy, scandalous Last Tango in Paris. Amid all this came a wave of nostalgic films like The Sting, The Last Picture Show, and Vietnam pictures such as Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, the rise of the antihero (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman), and the prestigious short-lived genre, blaxploitation. Packed with colour photos, 17 x 24cm, 824 pages. New from Taschen.
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