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Lectures in History

1970s American Car Culture & Film

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

University of Dayton professors John Heitmann and Todd Uhlman teach a class about 1970s American car culture and films of the era. Using examples like "Easy Rider," "American Graffiti" and "Badlands," they argue these films reflected many Americans' disillusionment and glorified the open road as a way to take back control in the face of societal changes. They also 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lectures in History is a weekly podcast, taking you to the classrooms of some of the country's leading universities.

1:10.9

This week, a look at 1970s American car culture and films of the era, including Easy Rider, American Graffiti, and Badlands.

1:15.3

University of Dayton professors John Heitman and Todd Olman talk about how these films may have reflected many Americans' desire

1:19.6

to take back control in the face of societal changes of the 1960s.

1:25.5

Well, today we're going to be talking about making sense of us or the United States in this period of the 1970s,

1:36.3

and we're going to use three handles.

1:39.3

We're going to use vehicles.

1:41.3

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

1:48.7

all together and somehow come up with some sort of an understanding about changes in identity

1:55.0

during this tumultuous decade.

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