The Hollywood Renaissance

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Investigates the period of the personal, self-reflexive, edgy and experimental series of Hollywood pictures from 1967 to the late 1970s. These films were made by a gifted group of filmmakers from several realms (television, the independent world and film school) who crafted a politically subversive and aesthetically challenging body of cinema amidst the social and political upheavals taking place across large sections of American society. Armed with a newly formed rating system, directors like Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese and John Schlesinger could approach issues like sex, race, politics, language and violence in confrontational and candid ways never before seen in Hollywood.