Easy rider - La Salle University

From: Reviews and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas
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E2700 EASY RIDER (USA, 1969)
Credits: director, Dennis Hopper ; writers, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry
Southern.
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Phil Spector, Jack Nicholson.
Summary: Road trip melodrama set in the contemporary U.S. One of the youth
films of the 1960’s which reflects the attitudes and longings of a generation.
Two motorcyclists (Fonda and Hopper) travel across the U.S. in search of
the ‘real’ America against the background of the Vietnam War. Along the
way they encounter people from big cities and small towns, a hippie
commune, and drugs and sex in a New Orleans bawdy house.
Adair, Gilbert. Hollywood’s Vietnam [GB] (p. 38-41, 207)
___________. Vietnam on film [GB] (p. 54-7, 59, 174)
Alion, Yves. “Easy rider” Revue du cinema 444 (Dec 1988), p. 39.
Andrews, Tom. “Movie mailbag: Why do they hate long hair?” [Letter] New York
times (Nov 2, 1969), sec. 2, p. 13, 27.
Auster, Al and Quart, Leonard. “American cinema of the sixties” Cineaste 13/2
(1984), p. 4-12.
________________________. How the war was remembered [GB] (p. 38-9)
Barbera, Alberto. “Il mito di Hopper” Segnocinema 33 (May 1988), p. 21.
Barth, Jack and Ellis, Trey. “‘Easy rider’ revisted” Premier 2 (May 1989), p. 86-88+
[5 p.]
Bayer, William. The great movies. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, 1973. (p. 160-66)
Berkovitch, Ellen. “Talking pictures fest honors directors” Albuquerque journal (Apr
16, 1999), Arts, etc., p. 4.
“Bikers talk about Easy rider” Space city 1/7 (Oct 11, 1969)
Bingham, Dennis. “What exactly is “Easy”?: Nicholson at BBS” Chap. 9 in his
Acting male : masculinities in the films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and
Clint Eastwood New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press, 1994. (p. 109-16)
Blauschild, E. [Easy rider] Big US 2/10 (Sep 11, 1969)
Brode, Douglas. The films of the sixties Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, 1980.
Cagin, Seth, and Dray, Philip. Hollywood films of of the seventies: sex, drugs,
violence, rock ‘n roll, and politics New York : Harper and Row, 1984. (p. 61-
76)
Canby, Vincent. “‘Easy rider’: a statement on film” New York times (Jul 15, 1969), p.
32.
____________. “For neo-adults only” New York times (Jul 27, 1969), sec. 2, p. 1,
16.
Chanan, Michael. [Easy rider] Art international 13 (Dec 1969), p. 55.
Christensen, Terry. Reel politics : American political movies from Birth of a nation
to Platoon [GB] (p. 113, 122-3, 125, 146)
“Cinema: new movies: space odyssey 1969” Time 94/4 (Jul 25, 1969), p. 73-4.
Cohen, Mitchell S. “The corporate style of BBS: 7 intricate pieces” Take one 3
(Jul/Aug 1972), p. 19-22.
Cook, David A.. Lost illusions : American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and
Vietnam, 1970-1979 New York : Scribner’s, 1999. (p. 161-3, 166-67+)
Corliss, Richard. “Film chronicle: consumer’s report” National review 21/37 (Sep
23, 1969), p. 970-71.

Cornuau, Francois. “Ceux par qui le scandale arrive” Cinemotion 2 (Dec 1988), p.
11.
Costello, Donald P. “From counter-culture to anti-culture” Commonweal 96 (Jul 14,
1972), p. 383-6.
Cumbow, Robert C. “Easy rider” Vietnam war feature filmography (1992 draft) [GB]
(p. 125) and Vietnam war films [GB] (Entry 168)
Dan. [Easy rider] Extra 1/21 (Aug 12, 1969)
Davis, Joyce P. “Movie mailbag: ‘Just too much’“ [Letter] New York times (Nov 30,
1969), sec. 2, p. 6.
De Muth, Jerry. “Movie: empty journey” Christian century 86/37 (Sep 10, 1969), p.
1169.
Denerstein, Robert. “‘Easy rider’ led the drug-culture traffic” Denver Rocky
Mountain news (Apr 18, 1999), p. 4D.
Denisoff, R. Serge and Romanowski, William D. Risky business: rock in film [GB]
(p. 167-75+)
Devine, Jeremy M. Vietnam at 24 frames a second [GB] (p. 56, 59, 318)
Donahue, T. [Easy rider] Daily planet 1/2 (Oct 24, 1969)
Downey, R. [Easy rider] Helix 9/10 (Oct 2, 1969)
Downing, David. Jack Nicholson: a biography London : W.H. Allen, 1983.
[Reissued: New York : Stein and Day, 1984; (paperback ed.) New York :
Stein and Day, 1985]
Dray, Philip (see under Cagin, Seth)
[Easy rider] Amante cine 2/14 (Apr 1993), p. 36-9.
“Easy rider” American Film Institute catalog [GB] (Entry F6.1318)
[Easy rider] Esquire 72 (Sep 1979), p. 12+
[Easy rider] Esquire 72 (Oct 1979), p. 14.
[Easy rider] Film daily (Jul 18, 1969), p. 6.
[Easy rider] Filmfacts 12 (1969), p. 265.
[Easy rider] Focus 5 (Oct 1969), p. 18-19.
[Easy rider] Holiday 46 (Aug 1969), p. 14.
[Easy rider] Hollywood reporter 206/33 (Jun 26, 1969), p. 3.
[Easy rider] Kine weekly n. 3230 (Sep 6, 1969), p. 6.
[Easy rider] Look 33 (Jul 29, 1969), p. 16.
[Easy rider] Monthly film bulletin 36/429 (Oct 1969), p. 207.
“Easy rider” Motion picture guide (edited by Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph
Ross) Chicago : Cinebooks, 1985. (v. 3, p. 741)
[Easy rider] Motion picture herald 239/29 (Jul 16, 1969), p. 233.
[Easy rider] St. Anthony messenger 77 (Dec 1969), p. 46.
[Easy rider] Today’s cinema n. 9719 (Sep 5, 1969), p. 5.
[Easy rider] Vogue 154 (Aug 1, 1969), p. 64.
Edwards, P. [Easy rider] Kaleidescope - Madison 1/7 (Oct 1969)
_________. [Easy rider] Kaleidescope - Madison 1/8 (Nov 1969)
Ellis, Trey (see under Barth, Jack)
Ewing, Ian and Reif, Tony. “Fonda” Take one 2/3 (Jan-Feb 1969), p. 6-10.
Farber, Manny. [Easy rider] Artforum 7 (Oct 1969), p. 81.
Farber, Stephen. [Easy rider] Film quarterly 23/2 (winter 1969-70), p. 3-16.
Film 69/70 (edited by Joseph Morgenstern and Stefan Kantor) New York : Simon
and Schuster, 1970. (p. 34-46)
Fitzgerald, D. [Easy rider] Space city 1/8 (Oct 25, 1969)
Fleming, Michael and Manvell, Roger. Images of madness : the portrayal of insanity
in the feature film Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1985.
(p. 217)
Flynn, Charles. [Easy rider] Focus 5 (Oct 1969), p. 18-19.

Fonda, Peter. “Peter Fonda on ‘Easy rider’: Interview” in The image maker (edited
by Ron Henderson) Richmond, Va. : John Knox Press, 1971.
Fonda, Peter; Hopper, Dennis; and Southern, Terry. Easy rider: original screenplay.
(edited by Nancy Hardin and Marylin Schlossberg) New York : New
American Library, 1969.
_________________________________________. “Easy rider: scenario et
dialogue” Avant-scene du cinema 117 (Sep 1971) (54 p.)
Fonda, Peter and Reyner, Leslie. “Thoughts and attitudes about ‘Easy rider’“ Film
(London) (autumn 1969)
Francis, M. [Easy rider] Seed 4/7 (1969)
Gelatt, Richard. “SR goes to the movies: those under thirties again” Saturday review
52/28 (Jul 12, 1969), p. 20.
Gilliatt, Penelope. “Current cinema: into the eye of the storm” New Yorker 45/22
(Jul 19, 1969), p. 70-72.
Goldstein, Richard. “Movies; Captain America, the beautiful” New York times (Aug
3, 1969), sec. 2, p. 13.
Greenfield, Jeff. “Retrospective: ‘Easy rider’: a turning point in film? A profound
social message? An endless bummer? Esquire 96 (Jul 1981), p. 90-91.
Hampton, Charles . [Easy rider] Film comment 6/3 (fall 1970), p. 64-9.
Hartung, Philip T. “The screen” Commonweal 90/18 (Aug 8, 1969), p. 486-7.
Hatch, Robert. “Films” Nation 209/4 (Aug 11, 1969), p. 125-6.
Herring, Henry D. “Out of the dream and into the nightmare: Dennis Hopper’s
apocalyptic vision of America” Journal of popular film and television 10/4
(winter 1983), p. 144-54.
Hirschman, Elizabeth C. “A cinematic depition of drug addiction: A semiotic
account” Semiotica 104/1-2 91995), p. 119-64.
Holdstein, Deborah H. “Easy rider” International dictionary of films and filmmakers
1st ed. [GB] (v. 1, p. 137-9)
[Reprinted: 2d ed. [GB] (v. 1, p. 277-9)]
Holtan, Orley I. [Easy rider] Journal pf popular culture 4/1 (summer 1970), p. 273-
85.
Holzl, Gebhard and Peipp, Matthias. Fahr zur Holle, Charlie! [GB] (p. 164-67, 173,
186, 264)
Hooper, Dennis (see under Fonda, Peter)
“Hopper talks about Easy rider” Distant drum 57 (Nov 11, 1969)
Hugo, Chris. “Easy rider and Hollywood in the ‘70s” Movie 31-32 (winter 1986), p.
67-71.
Ingram, B. [Easy rider] Philadelphia freepress 2/22 (Nov 3, 1969)
Johnson, Timothy W. “Easy rider” Magill’s survey of cinema. English language films,
first series Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press, 1980. (v. 2, p. 494-7)
Jud, Reinhard. “Eins neun sechs neun” Film Video Logbuch 22 (Mar 1989), p. 32-7.
Kael, Pauline. “The current cinema: the bottom of the pit” New Yorker 45/32 (Oct
3, 1970), p. 127-8.
Karren, Howard. “Young Americans” Premiere 4 (winter 1991), p. 92-3.
Kauffmann, Stanley. Figures of light: film criticism and comment. New York :
Harper and Row, 1971. (p. 185-88)
_______________. “Stanley Kauffmann on films: Easy rider” New republic 161/5
(Aug 2, 1969), p. 22, 35.
Kay, M. [Easy rider] Old mole 1/20 (Aug 28, 1969)
Kissinger, David. “‘Easy rider’ producers file suit to block Columbia over free TV
licenses” Variety 339 (Apr 25, 1990), p. 4.
Koppel, R. [Easy rider] Pr. primer 2/5 (Nov 18, 1969)
Langkjaer, Birger. “Film & musik” Kosmorama 41/212 (summer 1995), p. 24-30.
Lanning, Michael Lee. Vietnam at the movies [GB] (p. 207)

Lawrence, Joe B. “The allegory of Easy rider” English journal 59/5 (May 1970), p.
665-6.
Leff, Leonard J. Fulm plots ; scene-by-scene narrative outlines for feature film study
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pierian Press, 1983-1988. (v. 1, p. 103-6)
Lichterman, Joan. “‘Rider’ championed” [Letter] Christian century 86/47 (Nov 19,
1969), p. 1491.
Macklin, F. Anthony. “‘Easy rider’: the initiation of Dennis Hopper” Film heritage
5/1 (fall 1969), p. 1-12.
Manvell, Roger (see under Fleming, Michael)
Mast, Gerald. A short history of the movies. New York : Pegasus, 1971.
[Reissued (2d ed) Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1976; (3d ed) Indianapolis :
Bobbs-Merrill, 1981; Chichago : Unive of Chicago Press, 1981; Oxford :
Oxford Univ. Press, 1981; (4th ed) New York : Macmillan, 1986;
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1986; (5th ed) New York : Macmillan, 1992]
Milne, Tom. [Easy rider] Sight and sound 38/4 (autumn 1969), p. 211.
Morgenstern, Joseph. “Movies: on the road” Newsweek 74/3 (Jul 21, 1969), p. 95,
98.
Moskowitz, Gene (Mosk). “Easy rider” Variety (May 14, 1969), p. 6.
Muse, Eben J. The land of Nam : the Vietnam war in American film [GB] (p. 65, 67,
125-6, 242)
Naughton, James M. “Agnew assails songs and films that promote a ‘drug culture’“
New York times (Sep 15, 1970), p. 18.
O’Connor, John J. “On film: Bogart to Captain America” Wall Street journal (Jul 16,
1969), p. 16.
Pechter, William S. Twenty-four times a second: films and filmmakers. New York :
Harper and Row, 1971. (p. 122-33)
______________. “With-it movies” Commentary 49/2 (Feb 1970), p. 77-81.
Peipp, Matthias (see under Holzl, Gebhard)
Penn, Stanley. “Focusing on youth: A new breed of movie attracts the young, shakes
up Hollywood: Low cost films win raves: Dramas portray rebels” Wall Street
journal (Nov 4, 1969), p. 1.
Polt, Harriet R. “Easy rider” Film quarterly 23/1 (fall 1969), p. 22-4.
Purvis, A. [Easy rider] Old mole 1/20 (Aug 28, 1969)
Quart, Leonard (see under Auster, Al)
Raman, N. Kalyan. “Individualism and the pseudo-epic sensibility” Deep focus 3/2
(1990), p. 72-81.
Reed, Rex. Big screen, little screen. New York : Macmillan, 1971. (p. 232-4)
________. “Movies: the man who walked off with ‘Easy rider’“ New York times
(Mar 1, 1970), sec. 2, p. 15. [Interview with Jack Nicholson]
Reed, Roy. “New Orleans ends its most violent Mardi Gras season in years with 600
in its jail” New York times (Feb 11, 1970), p. 24.
[Many encouraged to attend by the film Easy rider]
Reif, Tony (see under Ewing, Ian)
Reyner, Leslie (see under Fonda, Peter)
Romanowski, William D. (see under Denisoff, R. Serge)
Rubin, Saul. “Restored to splendor, films get a new re-lease on life: Movies: Results
of sophisticated, and sometimes controversial, preservation techniques are
being presented in a series of screenings” Los Angeles times (Apr 23, 1999),
Calendar, p. 24.
Sackett, Susan. The Hollywood Reporter book of box office hits Rev. and enl. ed.
New York : Billboard Books, 1996. (p. 206)
Sadoul, Georges. Dictionary of films. Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, 1972. (p.
97-8)

Sarris, Andrew. Confessions of a cultist: on the cinema 1955-1969. New York :
Simon and Schuster, 1970. (p. 445-47)
___________. [Easy rider] Village voice 14/28 (Jul 3, 1969), p. 45.
______________. [Easy rider] Village voice 14/44 (Aug 14, 1969), p. 35.
Scharres, Barbara. “From ‘Out of the blue’: the return of Dennis Hopper” Journal of
the University Film and Video Association 35/2 (1983), p. 25-33.
Schenck, Ralf. “Ich bete di Kamera an” Film und Fernsehen 13/3 (1985), p. 37-41.
Schickel, Richard. “Movie review: a lyric, tragic song of the road: Easy rider” Life
67/2 (Jul 11, 1969), p. 10.
_____________. Second sight: notes on some movies, 1965-1970. New York :
Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Seate, Mike. Two wheels on two reels : a history of biker movies [GB] (p. 43-5 +)
Shiel, Mark. “Why call them ‘cult movies’? American independent filmmaking and
the counterculture in the 1960s” Scope: an online journal of film studies
(2001) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/articles/why-call-themcult.htm
Simon, John. Movies into film. New York : Dial Press, 1971. (p. 115-17)
Smith, Julian. Looking away. (book) [GB] (p. 131, 169)
Southern, Terry. “Movie mailbag: Exact genesis” [Letter] New York times (Jun 7,
1970), sec. 2, p. 6, 30.
____________. (see also under Fonda, Peter)
Spartacus. [Easy rider] Cinema 5/3 (1969), p. 44.
Springer, John. The Fondas: the film careers of Henry, Jane, and Peter Fonda. New
York : Citadel Press, 1970.
Stiny, Andrew. “Hopper’s film a ‘60s landmark” Denver post (Apr 11, 1999), p. H9.
Sullivan, Mary Rose. “‘Easy rider’: critique of the new hedonism” Western
humanities review 24 (1970), p. ?
Sullivan, Tom R. “‘Easy rider’: comic epic poem in film” Journal of popular culture
(spring 1970)
Taylor, P. [Easy rider] Fifth estate 4/12 (Oct 29, 1969)
Tracey, Grant. Filmography of American history [GB] (p. 262-3)
Trilling, Diana. “Easy rider and its critics” Atlantic 226/3 (Sep 1970), p. 90-95.
Tuten, Frederic. [Easy rider] Film society review 4/9 (May 1969), p. 35-40.
Van Gelder, Peter. “Easy rider (1969)” in his That’s Hollywood : a behind-the-scenes
look at 60 of the greatest films ever made New York : HarperPerennial, 1990.
(p. 72-6)
Vogler, Thomas. “Easy rider” Film und Ton 27 (Oct 1981), p. 50-51.
Wakefield, Dan. “The war at home” Atlantic 224/4 (Oct 1969), p. 119-24.
Walker, Alexander. Double takes: notes and afterthoughts on the movies, 1956-76.
London : Elm Tree Books, 1977. (p. 95-6, 178-80)
Walsh, Moira. ‘Films: fatal iconoclasm?” America 121 (Aug 30, 1969), p. 126.
Warshow, Paul. [Easy rider] Sight and sound 39/1 (winter 1969-70), p. 36-38.
Weldon, Michael. The psychotronic encyclopedia of film New York : Ballantine
Books, 1983. (p. 213)
“What directors are saying” Action (Los Angeles) (Sep-Oct 1969)
White, P. [Easy rider] Big US 2/10 (Sep 11, 1969)
Willis, Ellen. “See America first: Easy rider and Alice’s restaurant” in her Beginning
to see the light. 2d ed. Hanover, N.H. : Univ. Press of New England, 1992.
(p. 51-60)
Wolf, Lillian Kramer (see under Wolf, William)
Wolf, William and Wolf, Lillian Kramer. “Easy rider: Independent voice” in their
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