New Hollywood questions

1)The term New Hollywood means cinema from the 1960’s where the creative aspect of films shifted from the studio to the director.

2) Some famous films from this era include Bonney and Clyde, Midnight cowboy and The Graduate.

Some famous actors included Woody Allen, Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms and Ned Beatty.

Famous directors of the era where names such as Hal Ashby, John Badham and the previously mentioned Woody Allen.

3)During this era, the Vietnam war was going on. The civil rights movement was also going on at this time.

New Hollywood 30/1/24

New Hollywood was a movement in the 60s to the 80s where a new generation of film makers took a different approach to filmmaking in which the film director took over the key role. financial setbacks and a decline in theater attendance created this urge for a change in the industry.

 Francis Ford CoppolaMartin ScorseseSteven Spielberg are all directors.

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, all acted.

Bonny and Clyde is a film from this era.

The studio system that thrived during Hollywood’s Golden Age died in the 1960s. Challenges in the form of TV, antitrust legislation, low admissions, and censorship had worn down the studios in the previous decade. But the 1960s brought a new challenge that proved too difficult to overcome. Cinemas then would make high budget productions just to get viewers back and win over from tv. This would then also create more trouble as a lot of money was lost in making the set.

New Hollywood

new Hollywood is a period of film in the 1930-1990 where technology used to make film were updated as well as more creative freedom for directors instead of large studios.

some examples of some films from this era include, bonne and Clyde and taxi driver. Some directors from this period include Robert Aldrich and Woody Allen. Some stars from this era are Ned Beatty and René Auberjonois.

During this time period many events occurred some being the civil rights movement with MLK. WW2 came to an end having the cold war be more of a threat with people fearing communism spreading into America. The Vietnam war also occurred inspiring many of the movies from this time.

New Hollywood

  1. New Hollywood- The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema, was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.

the biggest killer of the Golden Age of Hollywood was the beginning of the Golden Age of Television which was around 1947 through the 1960s. Generally speaking, the mid-1960s is often considered the end of both Golden Ages.

2.In addition to Coppola and Bogdanovich, New Hollywood (1970s) would help to launch the directorial careers of Dennis Hopper, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, and Jonathan Demme, as well as actors such as Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern and Robert De Niro.

The following is a chronological list of notable films that are generally considered to be “New Hollywood” productions.

Big stars of The New Hollywood era:

John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin.

3. What happened in America 1960-1990?

  • John Kennedy Elected President. U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia.
  • Berlin Wall Erected.
  • James Meredith Registers at University of Mississippi.
  • Kennedy Assassinated – Lyndon Johnson President.
  • Civil Rights Act.
  • First Spacewalks.

trainspotting micro elements

sound

in trainspotting various needle drops are used throughout the film. this is normally to set the tone or mood for the scene. one of the most prominent examples of this is the scene in the nightclub where atomic by sleeper plays in the background

editing

in trainspotting a vast majority of the editing is used when Renton is withdrawing from heroine. this is done so we can see how Renton is feeling as he is hallucinating and obviously feeling nauseous.

mise en scene

in this scene mise en scene is used to show a typical pub in the 1990 as how begbie reacts when he is drunk

cinematography

in this scene various angles and shot types are used but here spud is caught in a medium close up side angle