FACES OF AMERICAN CINEMA

New Hollywood as the American form of film modernism

New Hollywood is an ambiguous term used for the period of the sixties and seventies in American film industry, when different cultures and social developments cause changes in film production and, hence, affect the formation of a different audience and the creation of new determinants of style and genre. This text deals with New Hollywood through the prism of European modernist influences, whose key modes of representation are taken over by American cinema and incorporated in the heritage of its own tradition, thus turning them into independent and complex poetics.

Sonja Tarokić