American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

by Peter Kramer and Peter Krämer

Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop, became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States, and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia wave washing over the country in the 1970s.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138681911
• ISBN13: 9781138681910
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"