S Counterculture and the Legacy of American Myth

A Study of Three Films

Bibliographic Data

ID8895059
AuthorsBren Ortega Murphy (corresponding author), Jeffery Scott Harder
Year1992
Volume23
Issue2
Pages57-78
Publication date1992-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras-023-02-02
OpenAlexW1984613575
LanguageEN
References cited12

We are all shaped by the times in which we live. I came of age in a time of turbulent social change. Some of it good, such as civil rights, much of it was questionable. But remember, not everyone joined the counterculture. Not everyone demon- strated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolut- ion or dodged the draft.... The majority of my generation lived by the credo our parents taught us. (Marilyn Quayle, Republican National Convention, 1992) During the 1960s, it was common for critics of the political counterculture to characterize the strands of that movement as products of an ominous external threat. In some cases the threat was specifically linked to communism. In others, it remained vague in terms of ideology except that it was definitely anti-American in nature.1 This characterization reemerged in U.S. mass media's accounts of various sixties' anniversaries (i.e., the twentieth anniversary of the Chicago Democratic Presidential Convention), in the coverage of antiwar protest during the Gulf War, as well as in Republican attacks on Bill Clinton in the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign

Convention · Counterculture · Democracy · Ideology · Media studies · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · American Political and Social Dynamics · Classics · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Music History and Culture

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