Films like Easy Writer, American Graffiti, and Badlands are just a few examples of movies that reflected many Americans' disillusionment and glorification of the open road as a way to take back control of societal changes in the 1970s.

Hi, I'm Shannon Rice, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN,

and this week's lectures in history focuses on 1970s car culture and films of that era.

University of Dayton professors John Heitman and Todd Ullman teach the class,

and they talk about the impact of oil shortages,

the rise of coast-to-coast races called Cannonball Runs,

and the popularity of trucker movies and music.

Stay tuned, class starts right after this.

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Well, today we're going to be talking about making sense of us or the United States in this period

of the 1970s, and we're going to use three handles.

We're going to use vehicles. We're going to use vehicles.

We're going to use philm, and we're going to use the crises of the 70s

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