New Hollywood

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era in American cinema film movement

New Hollywood was a transformative era in American cinema, roughly from the late 1960s to early 1980s, when a new generation of directors introduced more experimental, auteur-driven, and socially conscious films that broke from traditional studio formulas.

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All labels observed (16)

Label	Occurrences
New Hollywood canonical	55
New Hollywood cinema	25
New Hollywood era	25
New Hollywood cinema movement	6
New Hollywood movement	6
New Hollywood filmmakers	5
American New Wave cinema	4
American New Hollywood cinema	3
American New Hollywood cinema era	2
American New Wave	2
New Hollywood era of American cinema	2
American New Hollywood cinema movement	1
New Hollywood cinema era	1
New Hollywood period	1
New Hollywood visual style	1
NewHollywoodCinema	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era in American cinema ⓘ film movement ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	New Hollywood ⓘ surface form: American New Wave
coincidedWith	introduction of MPAA film rating system ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
declineCause	financial failures of ambitious auteur projects ⓘ reassertion of studio control ⓘ success of high-concept blockbusters ⓘ
economicContext	period of box office decline for studios in the 1960s ⓘ rise of blockbuster filmmaking in the mid-1970s ⓘ
emergedAfter	decline of classical Hollywood studio system ⓘ end of Production Code era ⓘ
endTime	early 1980s ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	ambiguous endings ⓘ anti-hero protagonists ⓘ auteur-driven filmmaking ⓘ departure from classical Hollywood studio formulas ⓘ experimental narrative techniques ⓘ exploration of counterculture ⓘ grittier realism ⓘ increased director creative control ⓘ influence of European art cinema ⓘ socially conscious themes ⓘ subversion of genre conventions ⓘ use of location shooting ⓘ
influencedBy	1960s counterculture ⓘ French New Wave ⓘ Social realism ⓘ surface form: Italian Neorealism Vietnam War era politics ⓘ civil rights movement ⓘ
legacy	expanded thematic and stylistic range of mainstream American films ⓘ influenced contemporary independent cinema ⓘ reshaped director-studio power dynamics ⓘ
notableDirector	Arthur Penn ⓘ Brian De Palma ⓘ Dennis Hopper ⓘ Francis Ford Coppola ⓘ George Lucas ⓘ Hal Ashby ⓘ John Cassavetes ⓘ Martin Scorsese ⓘ Mike Nichols ⓘ Peter Bogdanovich ⓘ Robert Altman ⓘ Roman Polanski ⓘ Steven Spielberg ⓘ William Friedkin ⓘ
notableFilm	Apocalypse Now ⓘ Bonnie and Clyde ⓘ Chinatown ⓘ Dog Day Afternoon ⓘ Easy Rider ⓘ Five Easy Pieces ⓘ Harold and Maude ⓘ Jaws ⓘ MASH ⓘ Mean Streets ⓘ Nashville ⓘ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ⓘ Star Wars ⓘ Taxi Driver ⓘ The Exorcist ⓘ The Godfather ⓘ The Godfather Part II ⓘ The Graduate ⓘ
startTime	late 1960s ⓘ
thematicFocus	alienation ⓘ disillusionment with the American Dream ⓘ political corruption ⓘ psychological complexity ⓘ sexual liberation ⓘ violence and crime ⓘ

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