'60s Hollywood: The Rebels and the Studios

'60s Hollywood: The Rebels and the Studios

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/movies/14dargis.html?emc=eta1

"Over this past decade New Hollywood — usually bracketed by the bloody sensational wow of “Bonnie and Clyde” in 1967 and the two-blockbuster punch of “Jaws” and “Star Wars” in the mid-1970s — has been the subject of so much popular adulation and academic scrutiny as to become a veritable fetish."


I'm posting this as it challenges the conventional wisdom on the "end" of the Hollywood Studio era, rethinking the relationship between the studios, the "New Hollywood" directors, and the influence of foreign films. So the article is looking at some of the issues our course will cover, but within an era that our course will not reach.