Easy Riders and Raging Bulls documentary (NEW HOLLYWOOD)

Between 1960 and 1980 a whole new generation of film making came into effect, it was known as New Hollywood abecause certain contracts or rules were begginning to be broken during this time. New Hollywood occured because of young directors coming in and creating films that brought a sense of excitement to Hollywood. Example directors would be Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg and Roman Polanski. These directors helped to bring "the baby boom generation" to the cinema because before the youth generaton thought they weren't be catered for so when Hollywood was injected with a vast amount of young directors,they were soon catered for. A film that helped contribute to this was Antonioni''s Blow Up made in 1966 which was a risk because of its daring content but also because of the complex storylines, this attracted audiences massively because ofit reflecting on own experience's and interests. Another factor was that realism became a more important style- it was easier to film on location as development in technology allowed smaller sound and filming equipment. Films like Easy Riders and Bonnie and Clyde were the first stages towards New Hollywood and Steven Spielberg's Jaws was in the finals stages. Other films that contributed were The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Rosemary's Baby. The success of these allowed more daring films like Taxi Driver and Mean Streets. Also during that time Independent films were becoming more popuar during the "New Hollywood" phase.