Mar 06, 2009
Film Genres of the Day: New Hollywood
Categories: Daily Advice
NEW HOLLYWOOD - A film movement from the 60s to the 80s when young filmmakers came to prominence in America. They drastically changed the kinds of films produced in Hollywood films and the way they were marketed. 1967’s Bonnie & Clyde, with its a mix of graphic violence, sex, humor, and its theme of glamorous disaffected youth was a hit. The Graduate, Easy Rider, and the Academy Award-winning Midnight Cowboy followed in quick succession.
By Alisha, InstantCast assistant editor
I am not sure I understand this definition. What types of changes? What makes this different from other definitions?
Would Easy Rider fall in this category?
I guess it means that they started making films differently from the way they used to be made in the 20’s, 30’s 40’s and 50’s. They were no longer innocent and g-rated but rather adjusted to the ways the world was changing. That would be my take from the defintion.