What is meant by the term New Hollywood?

New Hollywood is the post-classical Hollywood, from the mid to late 1960s through to the mid to late 1970s, the control moved more from the studio to new generations of directors that reflected political and cultural views at the time.

Name some of the films, directors and stars from this period.

Films – Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate

Directors – Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Arthur Penn

Stars – Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Woody Allen

What events were taking place in America around the period identified as the New Hollywood era of cinema?

The creation of the Hollywood Antitrust Law in 1948, the dismissal of the Hays Code in 1968, the civil rights movement, communism, the Vietnam war, John Kennedy’s assassination, Watergate scandal, inequality in American society.