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 of Looking for Mr.