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- American Film Industry: Class 11, New Hollywood
- 1 Motion Picture Ratings System
- 1.1 MPAA
- 1.2 November 1968
- 1.3 CARA
- 1.4 Four Age-Based Ratings
- 1.5 Films were no longer “something for everyone”
- 2 Rise of Adult Film
- 2.1 Mainstreaming of Adult Films
- 2.2 Deep Throat
- 2.3 Devil in Miss Jones
- 2.4 Behind the Green Door
- 2.5 Opening of Misty Beethoven
- 3 Moguls Retire
- 3.1 Darryl Zanuck
- 20th Century-Fox
- 1933–1971
- 3.2 Adolph Zukor
- Paramount
- founded Famous Players, 1912
- retired from Paramount, 1959
- chairman emeritus until death in 1973 (103 years old)
- 4 Conglomeration
- 4.1 Hollywood studios losing money
- TV siphoning audience
- loss of relevance among middle-brow viewers
- 4.2 Paramount
- 4.3 Warner Brothers
- Seven Arts, 1967
- Kinney National, 1969
- 4.4 MGM
- Edgar Bronfman, 1967
- Kirk Kerkorian, 1969
- 5 New Hollywood, New Freedom
- 5.1 New generation of moguls had no idea how to make movies
- 5.2 Moguls allowed filmmakers to make movies, hoping for great returns
- 6 Easy Rider (1969)
- 6.1 Dennis Hopper, director
- 6.2 American Independent Pictures
- 6.3 Launched countercultural movement in film
- 6.4 $400k in budget, $60M in box office
- 7 Hollywood Auteurs
- 7.1 New breed of filmmakers
- 7.2 Reinvented older filmmakers
- Stanley Kubrick
- William Friedkin
- George Lucas
- 8 The Godfather (1972)
- 9 Transformation of Genre
- 9.1 old genres made new
- 9.2 gangster film
- 9.3 film noir
- 9.4 musicals
- 9.5 westerns
- 10 Themes
- 10.1 adult themes
- 10.2 socially relevant
- 10.3 more frank and candid
- 11 Narration
- 11.1 relationship between story and screen
- 11.2 events told in unconventional ways
- 11.3 flash forward in the Godfather
- 12 Cinematography
- 12.1 close ups
- 12.2 zooms
- 12.3 framing techniques
- 13 Mise-en-Scène
- 13.1 hard to generalize
- 13.2 contemporary costuming
- 13.3 modern subjects and settings
- 14 Editing
- 14.1 dis-continuituous editing
- 14.2 jump cuts
- 14.3 breaking of 180° rule
- 15 Sound
- 15.1 contemporary music
- 15.2 exploitation of multichannel sound
- 15.3 sound bridges, made possible by multitrack recording technology
- 16 End of the New Hollywood Era
- 16.1 Apocalypse Now (1979)
- 16.2 Heaven’s Gate (1980)
- 16.3 United Artists bankruptcy and sale to MGM