The dream life : movies, media and the mythology of the sixties /
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New York :
New Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Making pre-history AD 1960. Enter the Hollywood freedom fighter ; Sputnik and the spector of Communist earth control ; When Superman came to the supermarket ; October 1960: Spartacus vs. The Alamo ; The year's best western: the new frontier and The magnificent seven
- Glamour and anxiety: the Kennedy scenario, 1961-63. Camelot year one: into the Twilight zone ; Camelot year two: the President's double lives ; The Manchurian candidate = the secret agent of history ; Camelot down: thinking about the unthinkable ; Coups d'Etat: four days in November, Seven days in May ; Dr. Strangelove's prescription
- South by southwest: Lyndon Johnson's trip, 1964-66. Jet-age bronco busters and twilight westerns ; The cowboy election of 1964 ; Major Dundee--great society abroad ; The chase--great society at home ; Vietnam: "an Oriental western" ; Gathering the tribes: diggers, panthers, outlaws
- Born to be wild: outlaws of America, 1967-69. If you are a Bonnie-and-Clyder-- : the birth of radical chic ; Spring 1968: shooting Easy rider, going Wild in the streets ; Creating our own reality: The Green Berets and the battle of Chicago ; The election: calling Coogan's bluff ; No future: the children of Bonnie and Clyde
- Nixon time: the war at home, 1969-71. The end of the sixties ; America's night of the living dead (My Lai, Manson, Myra Breckinridge) ; Spring 1970: Patton over Cambodia ; Generational war in the dream life: Hey Joe (where you goin' with that gun in your hand?) ; The last round-up: counterculture psychodrama and hippie westerns, 1971 ; The legal vigilante: Dirty Harry and Tricky Dick
- After the orgy, from blowup to blow out. Flash-forward to 1968: Shampoo ; The 1972 campaign: Warren, George, Jan, and The candidate ; The Nixon western ; Cine paranoia: conspiracies unmasked, 1973-75 ; Freedomland 1981: Ronald Reagan and the last sixties movie.