MALIBU BEACH TO THE VALLEY OF ASHES: Last Year's Films: Yesteryear's Life Styles

OTHER FILMS, it is true, were more talked about in '74, notably The Exorcist and Last Tango , each arguably depicting a gadarene trend of our times. But The Sting, Gatsby , and The Way We Were probably tell us more about middle‐class, and perhaps middle‐aged, opinion, British and American, in t...

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Published in:Library review (Glasgow) 1975-01, Vol.25 (1), p.24-25
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Language:English
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Summary:OTHER FILMS, it is true, were more talked about in '74, notably The Exorcist and Last Tango , each arguably depicting a gadarene trend of our times. But The Sting, Gatsby , and The Way We Were probably tell us more about middle‐class, and perhaps middle‐aged, opinion, British and American, in that year of inflation and confusion; indeed, as New Society almost noticed wordily in November, about middle‐class reaction from just those trends Bertolucci and Friekdin exhibit. They deserve thus a clinical, although they ask insistently a roseate, retrospect.
ISSN:0024-2535
DOI:10.1108/eb012621