Essays on Seventies

Korea was bisected at the end of the Second World War, as a response to the differing political climates which each half of the peninsula espoused – North Korea preferred the communism of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was more in line with the policies and politics espoused by the west, the U.S. in particular. During the early fifties, hostilities between the two halves of the country reached breaking point, and the Korean War broke out, with the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea attempting to reunify the country by conquering South Korea, and the American army attempting to ...

Introduction

People, as social creatures, tend to unite in groups that have something common: they may have a similar system of values, behavior or lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture to which they belong. In social studies, the word “subculture” refers to a part of a public group that differs from predominant society. This paper is aimed at analyzing subculture of punk, the role of media and style in punk youth subculture. From the perspective of cultural studies, a subculture is associated with a group of people that do not contradict against the values of traditional culture but ...

“Shocking cinemas of the seventies “by Xavier Mendik focuses on specific films from the 1970s, and I feel that majority of those films lie forgotten or hardly discussed. He sheds light on the social and cinematic issues that made the films from that era. Mendik provides the information to attract both consumer and academic readers. However, at times, his style becomes a bit too wordy and lengthy. Still, the book is readable, maintains a consistent tone and most readers can dig into useful information on the movies from the seventies. The chapter –“Another one from the fire” is from ...

“Another One for the Fire” by Linnie Blake considers the philosophy of George A. Romero’s films of the seventies in the context of the time and from the sociological perspective. The author dwells on three Romero’s films of the period – “The Crazies” (1973),”Martin” (1976), and “Dawn of the Dead” (1978). Blake asserts that all three films by this director have similar peculiarities as well as similar main ideas due to the tendencies which were in the American society of the time and as a result of the changes which had taken place just before the beginning ...

Marta Minujín is a conceptual artist who created works of art that are specific to pop art current, depicting, through the use of irony or humor contemporary events, which she referred to as “happenings”. Her artistic career reflects different historical and creative movements that define her versatile, free floating style. Two different artworks that summarize Minujín’s challengeable and pliable artistic style, while also illustrating her creative singularity, are “Parthenon of Books” and “Sweet Bread Obelisk”. The works of Marta Minujín debate social happenings, aspects that have influenced the reality of Argentina and Buenos Aires in ...

In her essay, “Another One for the Fire: George. A. Romero’s American Theology of the Flesh” Linnie Blake talks about how Romero’s horror movies was a reflection of the decay in the American civic body. She discusses his movies such as ‘ The Crazies (1973)’, ‘Martin (1976)’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead (1978)’and argues that these movies were not only an allegorical depiction of the horrors of the seventies but also embodies an historical sense that can be traced to Winthrop, a former governor of New England. Blake begins the essay quoting Winthrop who called for a ...