Download or read book Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men written by Derek Nystrom and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. The persistent appearance of working-class characters in these and other films of the 1970s reveals the powerful role class played in the key social and political developments of the decade.