New Hollywood

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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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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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Michael Phillips partOf New Hollywood
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Carroll Ballard movement New Hollywood
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John Milius memberOf New Hollywood
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Hollywood cinema
The Hired Hand partOf New Hollywood
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Cockfighter era New Hollywood
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The Conversation filmMovement New Hollywood
Italian cinema influenced New Hollywood
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Alan J. Pakula movement New Hollywood
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Badlands filmMovement New Hollywood
The Last Picture Show partOf New Hollywood
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John A. Alonzo partOf New Hollywood
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New American Cinema influenced New Hollywood
New American Cinema relatedTo New Hollywood
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Rosemary's Baby partOf New Hollywood
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David Myers artisticMovement New Hollywood
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Marcia Griffin genre New Hollywood
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Italian Neorealism influenced New Hollywood
Cahiers du Cinéma influenced New Hollywood
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The Killing of Sister George partOf New Hollywood
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Emperor of the North era New Hollywood
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Justin Henry as Billy Kramer cinematicEra New Hollywood
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Vilmos Zsigmond movement New Hollywood
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John Savage participatedIn New Hollywood
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Cinerama Releasing Corporation era New Hollywood
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American cinema includesMovement New Hollywood
Robert Towne movement New Hollywood
Robert Towne activeInPeriod New Hollywood
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Dede Allen movement New Hollywood
Henry Jaglom movement New Hollywood
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Brewster McCloud partOf New Hollywood
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German New Cinema relatedMovement New Hollywood
Lucien Ballard era New Hollywood
Michael Cimino movement New Hollywood
Gray Frederickson partOf New Hollywood
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J. J. Gittes filmEra New Hollywood
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Owen Roizman movement New Hollywood
Bob Rafelson movement New Hollywood
BBS Productions influenced New Hollywood
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BBS Productions era New Hollywood
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Get Carter era New Hollywood
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