Straw Dogs

As the 1960s bled into the 1970s, Western society grappled with the aftershocks of a decade defined by radical upheaval—civil rights, sexual liberation, and anti-war protests. The question lingered: how much of this progress would survive the inevitable conservative backlash? Cinema emerged as a battleground for this cultural reckoning, with filmmakers testing the limits of newfound creative freedom. Many works from…