White Riot: A Brief History of Vietnam War Protest Elements in Cinema

White Riot: A Brief History of Vietnam War Protest Elements in Cinema
ISBN-10
1909923508
ISBN-13
9781909923508
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2013-10-12
Publisher
SCB Distributors
Author
Jack Hunter

Description

The latter part of the 1960s saw the advent of a small, short-lived genre of Vietnam War-related cinema – the “peacenik/draft-dodger” movie, in which student anti-war demonstrations and ruses used by America’s youth to avoid conscription were used as plot devices in films ranging from the underground to teen exploitation and arthouse productions. WHITE RIOT looks at a whole range of these films, including works by Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, and Kenneth Anger. With 9 photographic illustrations.

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