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New Hollywood. New Hollywood. New Hollywood Cinema. Economic Crisis Hollywood Renaissance Conglomeration Instability Innovation Crisis New Paradigm. New Hollywood. New Hollywood Cinema. Innovation New methods of production and exhibition
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New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Economic Crisis • Hollywood Renaissance • Conglomeration • Instability • Innovation • Crisis • New Paradigm
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Innovation • New methods of production and exhibition • New talents, new business arrangements • New aesthetics • New Sounds • New Looks • Editing • Cinematography
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Social Issues • Vietnam continues
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Social Issues • Vietnam continues • Oil Embargo
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Social Issues • Vietnam continues • Oil Embargo • Global recession • Post-Fordism / Postmodernity
New Hollywood • Studios in Crisis • Bought by conglomerates (1st wave)
New Hollywood They're young... they're in love... and they kill people. - Ad campaign for Bonnie and Clyde
New Hollywood • Youth market and B Pictures • Roger Corman
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) – Film Ratings • Jack Valenti (1921-2007) • G • GP (PG in 1972) • M (eliminated in 1970) • R • X – (Midnight Cowboy, 1971)
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • TV Generation • Sam Peckinpah • Robert Altman • William Friedkin • Etc.
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • Peter Bogdanovich • Arthur Penn • Hal Ashby
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • “Film Generation” / “Hollywood Brats” • Francis Ford Coppola - UCLA
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • “Film Generation” / “Hollywood Brats” • Francis Ford Coppola - UCLA • Martin Scorcese – NYU • Brian De Palma • John Milius – USC • Paul Schrader - UCLA
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • “Film Generation” / “Hollywood Brats” • Francis Ford Coppola – Zoetrope Studios • An alternative to the studios?
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • “Film Generation” / “Hollywood Brats” • Francis Ford Coppola – Zoetrope Studios • An alternative to the studios? • Steven Spielberg – NO USC, Cal State Long Beach
New Hollywood • “Hollywood Renaissance” • An AUTEUR cinema in Hollywood • “Film Generation” / “Hollywood Brats” • George Lucas - USC
New Hollywood • Industrial Restructuring • Blockbusters / Saturation Booking • B genres to A pictures • The Godfather, 1972 – 400 Screens
New Hollywood • Industrial Restructuring • Blockbusters / Saturation Booking • B genres to A pictures • Jaws – 1975, 1000 screens
New Hollywood • Industrial Restructuring • Blockbusters / Saturation Booking • B genres to A pictures • Star Wars, 1977
New Hollywood • Industrial Restructuring • Blockbusters / Saturation Booking • B genres to A pictures • Merchandising
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Economic Crisis • Hollywood Renaissance VS. New Hollywood • Conglomeration • Instability • Innovation • Crisis • New Paradigm - Studios reassert control • (what is a studio?)
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • Innovation • New methods of production and exhibition • New talents, new business arrangements • New aesthetics
New Sounds Dolby A
New Sounds Dolby Optical Stereo
New Sounds Dolby SR
New Hollywood New Hollywood Cinema • New Sounds
Studio system crumbles; rise of indies Rise of independent production companies making mainstream films Films aimed at the newly important youth market Young filmmakers and cinematographers that had closely studied film history. The new cinematography
Haskell Wexler Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound for Glory, One Flew Under the Cuckoo’s Nest, Days of Heaven, Mulholland Falls Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966) Medium Cool (Wexler, 1969)
Gordon Willis Klute, Godfather I-III, All the President’s Men, Annie Hall, Interiors, Purple Rose of Cairo Parallax View (Pakula, 1973) Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
Gordon Willis Godfather: Under-exposure / Low Light Photography
Gordon Willis Godfather: Under-exposure / Low Light Photography
Gordon Willis Godfather: Unusual Angles and Composition
Gordon Willis Godfather: Unusual Composition and Color
Gordon Willis Godfather II: New color schemes
Gordon Willis Godfather II: Underexposure—Depth