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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Laszlo Kovacs movement New Hollywood
subject surface form: László Kovács
Obsession partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Hollywood cinema era
California Split partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Hollywood cinema era
Bert Schneider notableFor New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood movement
Bert Schneider influenced New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood filmmakers
Solar Productions era New Hollywood
The Last Detail era New Hollywood
The Godfather (film score) associatedPeriod New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Adam Holender movement New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema
The Boys in the Band era New Hollywood
The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir about New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood movement
William Hal Ashby movement New Hollywood
László Kovács movement New Hollywood
László Kovács influenced New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood visual style
Saint Jack filmMovement New Hollywood
A Woman Under the Influence era New Hollywood
Hair partOf New Hollywood
subject surface form: Hair (1979 film)
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema
Night Moves belongsToMovement New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema
Bobby Dupea genreContext New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Hollywood cinema
Serpico era New Hollywood
The Heartbreak Kid era New Hollywood
subject surface form: The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? era New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema
writing the screenplay of Dirty Harry isAssociatedWith New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Magic era New Hollywood
subject surface form: Magic (1978 film)
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Coffy era New Hollywood
Elia Kazan Productions associatedWith New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Coppola family hasInfluenceOn New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood movement
Putney Swope era New Hollywood
The Hospital era New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema
Jerome Hellman influenced New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema movement
Melvin and Howard partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Wave cinema
Handle with Care (1977 film) partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Caged Heat era New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Soldier Blue productionEra New Hollywood
Kent L. Wakeford partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era
Kent L. Wakeford movement New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Wave cinema
Jon Voight as Luke Martin partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood era of American cinema
Bruce Dern as Bob Hyde associatedWithMovement New Hollywood
this entity surface form: NewHollywoodCinema
Jacob Brackman partOf New Hollywood
this entity surface form: New Hollywood cinema movement
Joseph E. Levine associatedWith New Hollywood
this entity surface form: American New Wave cinema