Abstract
This chapter examines representations of the Sixties counterculture in late 1970s film. Tracing the emergence of ‘the Sixties’ as a commemorative concept, and the growing prevalence of what Philip Jenkins (2006) terms ‘anti-Sixties’ rhetoric within the post-1975 US public sphere, it explores American cinema’s response to such debates. The chapter provides a detailed analysis of Vietnam War-themed drama Coming Home (1978) and hippie musicals Hair and The Rose (both 1979)—their script development and the finished films—focusing in particular on how the filmmakers involved shaped and reshaped material pertaining to hippie communities and lifestyles. At a time when recalling the ‘Age of Aquarius’ was freighted with ideological significance, Coming Home, Hair and The Rose indicate the political and narrative strategies mobilised by filmmakers intent on contributing to these broader discourses.
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