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Author Stanfield, Peter, 1958- author.

Title Hoodlum movies : seriality and the outlaw biker film cycle, 1966-1972 / Peter Stanfield
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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Contents Introduction: hoodlum poses and gestures -- Strange excitements: the topical and the sensational -- Getting out of town: the cycle unfolds -- After Easy rider: modulations and curious combinations -- Nazi satanists, Viet vets and M'cycle mamas (and other such pulp delights) -- Conclusion: buried in the sand forever
Summary Hoodlum Movies focuses on why and how these films were made, who they were made for, and how the cycle developed through the second half of the 1960s. Despised by critics, but welcomed by exhibitors denied first-run films, these cheaply and quickly produced movies were produced to appeal to audiences of mobile youths until 1972
Analysis The Wild Angels
film
motorcycle films
movies
outlaw
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 15, 2018)
Subject Motorcycle films -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- 20th century -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Motion pictures
Motorcycle films
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813599038
0813599032
9780813599052
0813599059