Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men

Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to Easy Rider, murdering the film''s representatives of countercultural alienation and disaffection. They lurk in the Georgia woods of Deliverance, attacking outsiders in a manner that evokes the South''s recent history of racial violence and upheaval. They haunt the singles nightclubs o...