Shocking Cinema of the 70s

by Xavier Mendik

Book Overview

This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various 'difficult' subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350194484
• ISBN13: 9781350194489
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"