COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
West of Eden: A Silent Generation Warning to California Against the Dangers of the Counterculture in Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me
Creator:
Pittman, Amarien Duncan
Subject:
Thesis (M.A.) -- Cinema Studies
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Cinema Studies
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
This thesis examines Clint Eastwood’s Play Misty for Me (1971), and argues that the film is a Silent Generation warning against the dangers of the counterculture invasion of California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through a critical lens of generational theory, and the contextualization of Eastwood’s directorial debut within the New Hollywood cinema, this thesis also explores the film’s significance as a simultaneous perpetuation and deconstruction of the notion of “California,” as reflected in American popular culture.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2013-01
Format:
PDF : 40 p. : ill