American New wave research 2

Easy Riders Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind

• Events in the 50s, 60s and 70s started which shook Hollywood by causing a cultural revolution and therefore greatly changing the very singular demographic there had always been. Some of these events were "the Cold War, the universal fear of the Soviet Union, the paranoia of the red scare, the menace of the bomb-freeing anew generation of filmmakers frozen in the ice of 5os conformity. Then came, pell-mell, a series of Premonitory shocks - the civil rights movement, the Beatles, the pill, Vietnam, and drugs."(Biskind, 1998, pg14)
• The New wave in Hollywood was highly anticipated and long awaited as even though there were new waves taking place in the early 60s in other popular arts, due to movies being "expensive and time consuming to make," they were the slowest to respond to this cultural revolution and were at least half a decade late to the new wave. (Biskind, 1998, pg14)
• Due to it's long wait, there were many young, ambitious and talented aspiring filmmakers ready to start making films. Due to all these cultural events and movements, for the first time we saw the age restriction of having to be middle-aged, wealthy and highly educated to make a film be lifted. A lot of this was down to the fact university was becoming more of an option for the working class individual so the education to film courses was a lot more accessible which was why so many directors who notoriously had their debuts in the 60s and 70s were very young compared to the same very niche description of what a filmmaker had been for the last several decades.
• The 70s was the first time that kind of age restriction was lifted, as young people we're allowed to come rushing in with all their naïveté and their wisdom and all of the privileges of youth. It was just an Avalanche of brave new ideas, which is why the 70s was so watershed" - Steven Speilburg.
• Directors in New Hollywood were categorised into two groups. One consisting of white men typically born in the mid to late '30s some of which included, Peter Bodanovitch, Francis Coppola, Dennis Hopper, Woody Allen and Robert Altman. The second new wave group was made up of early boomers, born during and mostly after the Second World War often referred to as the film school generation, or the sp called movie brats. This included Scorsese, Speilburg, George, Lucas, John Milius, Paul Schrader and Terence Malick.
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