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Ronald Brownstein Celebrates and Elegizes L.A.’s ’70s-Era Cultural Dominance Ronald Brownstein’s ode to ’70s L.A. is, like so many California stories, less about a sustained moment than a bright and briefly thrilling mirage. Rock Me on the Water: 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics Ronald Brownstein March 2021 Near the end of the twice-nominated Pulitzer Prize author Ronald Brownstein’s mildly tendentious and gossipy Rock Me on the Water: 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics, he comes close to givin...

In December, 1963, Life published a special issue on “The Movies.” The United States, the magazine asserted, had fallen behind the rest of the world. Hollywood was too timid, too worried about the national “image.” Meanwhile, Swedish, Japanese, Italian, and French filmmakers were making movies that people talked about. “While the whole film world has been buzzing with new excitement,” the magazine concluded, “Hollywood has felt like Charlie Chaplin standing outside the millionaire’s door—wistful and forsaken.” Exactly four years later, which,...

Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws was published in 1974. In 1975 it was turned into a film. For years various cultural critics, most famously the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, have deconstructed Jaws to mean more than just a story about a fictional tourist spot, Amity Island, being tormented by a shark. Peter Biskind in his 1999 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls writes that, since the novel and its film adaptation arrived during a particularly severe economic and political crisis in the US, Jaws immediately struck a chord with an audience disoriented by the apparently indefinable nature ...

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind A stone-cold classic from the moment it arrived in 1998. Biskind, a former editor of Premiere magazine, produced a detailed, insightful and immensely readable account of the (until then) relatively neglected achievements of the 70s “movie brats” and their outpouring of masterworks. Both scholarly and popular, Biskind’s book turned a whole new generation on to the Hollywood new wave. Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Edited by Alison Castle Kubrick famously tried and failed to get a biopic of Napoleon off the ground in the late 60s and early 70s; Jack N...

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