Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture.

By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation—long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten—year span (from 1967 to 1976) rife with uneasy enco...