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American Graffiti
The 1973 box office and critical smash American Graffiti epitomized the 1950s nostalgia craze, established the device of interweaving multiple stories, inspired such television serie...
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Critical Essay by Michael Dempsey
[In American Graffiti] Lucas and his fellow writers, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, manage to be serious without portentous symbolism or heavy underlining. They slip ...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
Using women (and not only women) as plot functions may be a clue to the shallowness of many movies, even of much better movies—American Graffiti, for example. The...
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Critical Essay by Alice Sodowsky, Roland Sodowsky, and Stephen Witte
[American Graffiti] imports more than mere nostalgia for a past: it explores the consequences of technology upon an age that still ...
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American Graffiti
Critical Essay by Michael Dempsey
