Hypothesis: the 1970s was the last time Hollywood dealt with working class life with any degree of sustained empathy and attention. True?
@CoreyRobin Right: there was a taken-for-grantedness about working class in 1970s that doesn't exist now.
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@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin And 'disintegrating wking class' films are sad art-house things. Don't even get mainstream soldier life movies anymore -
@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin Contrast between, say, From Here to Eternity (grunts & noncoms) & Pearl Harbor (glam flyboys) pretty telling
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