On December 8, 1967
Time
magazine put
Bonnie and Clyde
on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence … Sex … Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the biggest hits of the period (including
The Graduate
[1967],
The Exorcist
[1973] and
Jaws
[1975]). He relates the distinctive features of these hits to changes in the film industry, in its audiences and in American society at large.