10:833:101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Warren Beatty, French New Wave, New Hollywood
1 Oct 2016
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A group of directors who tried to get younger audiences, were into culture and music, nouvelle vague. Created an anti-hollywood aesthetic, auteure notion of guiding vision behind film, favored style over narration, box office hits. Between late 1960s and mid 1970s, falling audiences and relaxed censorship let hollywood focus on the audiences specifically. Restructured film industry let new generation of filmmakers to emerge, who were film school grads born during or after the second world war. Transformation from institutional media into anti establishment cinema almost, part of social upheaval of 1960s. Films featured loose and open ended narratives, almost physical sense of inconsequential action, pointlessness and uselessness, a radical skepticism about the american virtues of ambition, vision, drive. Benton and newman were inspired to make a movie about bonnie and clyde in the style of. French new wave films, with scene descriptions, camera shots, character conversations with no dialogue .
