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American Graffiti

American Graffiti

George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

by Peter Krämer
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/02/2023
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This book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy, became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States, and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia wave washing over the country in the 1970s.

ISBN:
9780367523060
9780367523060
Category:
Uncategorized
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-02-2023
Publisher:
Routledge
Country of origin:
United States
Peter Krämer

Peter Kramer is a Senior Research Fellow in Cinema & TV in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University, UK.

His published books include Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2014) and The General (2016) in the BFI Film Classics series and The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era (co-edited with Yannis Tzioumakis, Bloomsbury, 2018).

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