Juan Monroy — 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
  - G
  - M
  - R
  - X
- 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
  - Gulf Western, 1966
- 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
  - Coppola
  - Altman
  - Scorcese
- 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