{"id":129600,"date":"2017-06-21T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=129600"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:49:29","slug":"celebrating-the-disreputable-an-interview-with-charles-taylor-about-his-new-book-opening-wednesday-at-a-theater-or-drive-in-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=129600","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Disreputable: An interview with Charles Taylor about his new book Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American ’70s<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCharles Taylor’s new book Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American ’70s<\/a>\"\"<\/i> was an intense pleasure to read. He discusses 15 films from the 1970s, films that were not made as prestige pictures, films not considered classics (well, okay, maybe two of them are now), films that were sniffed at as too raunchy, too violent, too … too much in general. These movies were dumped into second-run theatres and drive-ins, and were car movies, blaxploitation pictures, thrillers … genre movies that, nonetheless, speak deeply about the time in which they were made. Films like Prime Cut<\/i>, Hickey & Boggs<\/i>, Foxy Brown<\/i>, Eyes of Laura Mars<\/i>, Two-Lane Blacktop<\/i>, Citizens Band<\/i> … Many of these I had seen, many I had not, and will rectify that as soon as possible. <\/p>\n

I interviewed Charley (he’s a friend) about his book, and the interview is now up at Rogerebert.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n