Ronald Brownstein Celebrates and Elegizes L.A.’s ’70s-Era Cultural Dominance
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
Ronald Brownstein
March 2021
Near the end of the twice-nominated Pulitzer Prize author Ronald Brownstein’s mildly tendentious and gossipy
Rock Me on the Water: 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics, he comes close to giving the whole game away. After spending 300-odd pages walking readers month-by-month through 1974 and ticking off cultural and political milestones
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A MAN from the Isle of Wight is celebrating the landmark 200th episode of his increasingly popular movie podcast. Chris Johnston grew up in Northwood before following his passion to study film and television at university in London. Becoming interested in podcasting after listening to the Ricky Gervais Show, he started SpielbergPod, discussing the films of Steven Spielberg with friends. Honing his craft and perfecting his editing skills, Chris formed the Easy Riders Raging podcast in 2017, uploading an eyewatering 200 episodes in the first four years. He said: The Easy Riders podcast focuses on films released before I was born but not chronologically – series one was based on 1960s cinema, series two 1970s and we are currently looking at 1950s films in the third series.
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Peter Benchley’s novel
Jaws was published in 1974. In 1975 it was turned into a film. For years various cultural critics, most famously the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, have deconstructed
Jaws to mean more than just a story about a fictional tourist spot, Amity Island, being tormented by a shark.
Peter Biskind in his 1999 book
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls writes that, since the novel and its film adaptation arrived during a particularly severe economic and political crisis in the US,
Jaws immediately struck a chord with an audience disoriented by the apparently indefinable nature of the crisis.
In 2012, Žižek saw the shark as a combination of prejudices and fears that are encapsulated into a single definable entity, so that a bemused polity is able to clearly perceive it as the cause of society’s dread. To Žižek, the shark of Amity Island can thus be understood as a metaphor of any community seen to be existing outside the homogeneity of the majority community