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The '''New Hollywood''' era, also known as the American New Wave, the Hollywood Renaissance and the auteur period, is when the swinging [[The Sixties|Sixties]] arrived in Hollywood. It was marked by the rise of a new generation of young, film-school-educated, countercultural filmmakers—directors, actors and writers alike—whom Hollywood felt could speak to the new generation of young people in ways that their older stars could not. By this point in time, Hollywood was desperate to hold onto any remaining scrap of relevance in an era that saw its dominance of American pop culture pulverized by the trifecta of TV, foreign cinema and independent film. And so, in a last-ditch, Hail Mary pass, they granted these young artists unprecedented freedom to realize their visions in ways that past Hollywood filmmakers could never have imagined. The result was one of the largest creative explosions that the American film industry has ever seen, and which profoundly affected the way in which Hollywood operated into the present day.

 

 

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