New Hollywood – It was a movement in American film history from the mid – 1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence. They influenced the types of film produced, their production and marketing and the way the major studios approached filmmaking.

Four films from New Hollywood

– Bonnie and Clyde

– The graduate

– Rosemary’s Baby

– Night of the Living Dead

Four Directors from New Hollywood

– Steven Spielberg

– John Milius

– Christopher Nolan

– Martin Scorsese

Four Stars from New Hollywood

– Max Von Sydow

– Shelley Winters

– Walter Matthau

– Robert Shaw

What events where taking place in America and elsewhere in the world around the period identified as the New Hollywood Era of cinema ?
The civils Right movement – equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation and exclusion , and the escalation of the Vietnam war.

New Hollywood Style

• How did New Hollywood directors like Penn approach film narrative?
  – Filmmakers of the New Hollywood era embraced innovative and experimental visual style. The use of Handheld camera, unconventional angles and naturalistic lighting contributed to the immersive and authentic feel of the film, which made visual storytelling a crucial aspect of the new wave film.
• What is discontinuity editing?
  – when the audience visually notices a cut, because something about the cut calls attention to itself and it does not feel natural or seamless.
• The rise of the Auteurs in Hollywood?
  – New Hollywood is often known as the rise of the Auteurs as it as the beginning of when many films where being made by the same directors which meant you could tell the visual style and the differences in the directors. “It was a rallying cry for director as artists to say ” we can influence what these movies are.”
• What is the lasting impact of the New Hollywood style of modern films?
  – While the era eventually gave way to the blockbuster-dominated landscape of the 1980s, its impact on filmmaking techniques, narrative structures, and thematic exploration remains profound. The New Hollywood movement demonstrated that commercially successful films could also be artistically daring and socially relevant.