The bad sixties : Hollywood memories of the counterculture, antiwar, and Black power movements /

Hoerl, Kristen,

The bad sixties : Hollywood memories of the counterculture, antiwar, and Black power movements / Kristen Hoerl. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2019. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Over the past four decades, a wide range of Hollywood films and television programs have referenced events and individuals associated with the 1960s counterculture, anti-war, and Black Power movements. This text analyses narrative patterns and recurring character types across a wide variety of fictionalized film and television portrayals of the late sixties to illustrate how Hollywood has consistently derided and trivialized the period's protest movements.

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Motion pictures and history.
Nineteen sixties.
Politics in motion pictures.
Black power--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.

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