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The Collapse of the Studio System
The Federal Government charged the major studios in the early 1940s with violating federal anti-trust laws; because many production studios were their own film distributors (owning their own theaters, and thus all aspects of the distribution process), they used block booking to efficiently release many films at a time. -
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Rise of the Independents
The growth in independent producers and production companies, and the increase in the power of individual actors also contributed to the decline of traditional Hollywood studio production.Saw Hollywood filmmakers begin to create more innovative and groundbreaking films that reflected the social revolution taken over much of the western world such as Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969) Bonnie and Clyde is often considered the beginning of the so-called New Hollywood. -
Rise of the Independents
The growth in independent producers and production companies, and the increase in the power of individual actors also contributed to the decline of traditional Hollywood studio production. -
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Bonnie and Clyde is considered a landmark film, and is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era, since it broke many cinematic taboos and was popular with the younger generation. -
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper.A box office smash with a $60 million intake, of which $41.7 million was domestic gross (becoming the third highest grossing film of 1969, along with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate), Easy Rider helped kick-start the New Hollywood phase during the late 1960s and early 1970s. -
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means. -
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New Hollywood (The film school generation)
New Hollywood or post-classical Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the "American New Wave", refers to the time from roughly the late-1960s (Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate) to the early 1980s (Heaven's Gate, One from the Heart) when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in America, influencing the types of films produced, their production and marketing, and the way major studios approached filmmaking. In New Hollywood films, the film director took on a key authorial role. -
Steven Allan Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker and business magnate. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Popular films he made were Duel (1971), Jaws (1975), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Back To The Future (1985). -
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family. -
Age of the Director
Film director’s begin to express their personal vision and creative insights. The development of the auteur style of filmmaking helped to give these directors far greater control over their projects than would have been possible in earlier eras. This led to some great critical and commercial successes, like Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Coppola’s The Godfather films, Polanski’s Chinatown, Spielberg’s Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and George Lucas’s Star Wars. -
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinema history. His most popular films were Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Departed (2006). -
Rise of the Blockbuster
The phenomenal success in the 1970s of Jaws and Star Wars in particular, led to the rise of the modern “blockbuster”. Hollywood studios increasingly focused on producing a smaller number of very large budget films with massive marketing and promotional campaigns. -
Cross of Iron
Cross of Iron is a British-German 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. They are notable for using a significant number of authentic tanks and equipment. -
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. He founded Lucasfilm and led the company as chairman and chief executive before selling it to The Walt Disney Company on October 30, 2012. He created films such as Star Wars (1977), Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom (1984), Labyrinth (1986). -
Apocolypse now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall.
