The New Hollywood

In the time of the new wave in Europe, one new style of American cinema developed at the same time: the New Hollywood or the American New wave.

New Hollywood indicates an American film movement of the end of 1960s at the beginning of 1980s, which modernizes in a significant way the production of movies in Hollywood. This cinema, registered in the counterculture and influenced by the Italian neorealism, the European modernity and the New French Wave, is characterized by the seizure of power of the directors within the big American studios and the radical representation of themes until then taboo as the violence, the corruption of the political powers, the massacre of the Indians or the sexuality. New Hollywood also renews the kinds classic films American (western, macabre film) or them "deconstructed" by freeing itself from conventions of these.

The relatively short period of New Hollywood is considered as one of the most important phases of the American cinema of the artistic point of view, and reveals numerous directors as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma, Michael Cimino and Dennis Hopper.