West of Eden: A Silent Generation Warning to California Against the Dangers of the Counterculture in Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me

Pittman, Amarien Duncan

Savannah, Ga. : Savannah College of Art and Design

2013-01

Thesis (M.A.) -- Cinema Studies

Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Cinema Studies

Includes bibliographical references (p.38-40).

This thesis examines Clint Eastwood’s Play Misty for Me (1971), and argues that the film is a Silent Generation warning against the dangers of the counterculture invasion of California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through a critical lens of generational theory, and the contextualization of Eastwood’s directorial debut within the New Hollywood cinema, this thesis also explores the film’s significance as a simultaneous perpetuation and deconstruction of the notion of “California,” as reflected in American popular culture.

CHAIR: Cox-Stanton, Tracy

Pinkerton, Connie

Lough, James

English

Cinema Studies

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