Special Topics in Film Studies ((3))

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The 'New Hollywood' movement, sometimes called the "American New Wave," was an unprecedented chapter in the U.S. film industry. A new generation of filmmakers, influenced by innovative European and Asian cinema and marked by the social upheaval "Vietnam, Watergate, civil rights protests, women's liberation, the sexual revolution, sex, drugs, rock and roll and so on" sought to make films that were artistically ambitious and socially relevant. For a dozen or so years, New Hollywood filmmakers produced several daring, exciting movies that challenged the narrative and stylistic norms of classic Hollywood.