Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "Nobody Knows Anything" -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1: Hippie Generation: Easy Rider, Alice's Restaurant, Five Easy Pieces -- Chapter 2: Vigilantes and Cops: Joe, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, Death Wish -- Chapter 3: Disaster and Conspiracy: Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, Jaws, The Parallax View, Chinatown -- Chapter 4: The End of the Sixties: Nashville, Shampoo, Between the Lines, The Return of the Seacaucus Seven, The Big Chill -- Part 2 -- Chapter 5: Last Tango in Paris: Or Art, Sex, and Hollywood -- Chapter 6: Teen Films: American Graffiti, Cooley High, Animal House, Diner, Fast Times at Ridgemont High -- Chapter 7: General Patton and Colonel Kurtz: Patton, Apocalypse Now -- Chapter 8: From Blaxploitation to African American Film: Shaft, Superfly, Claudine, Leadbelly, Killer of Sheep -- Chapter 9: Feminisms: Hester Street, An Unmarried Woman, Girlfriends, Starting Over, Head over Heels/Chilly Scenes of Winter, Coming Home, The China Syndrome -- Chapter 10: Whose Future? Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Time Line, 1968-1983: American History, American Film -- Appendix 2: Filmography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.