The rise of New American Cinema of the late 1960s
• Economic breakdown of the studio era
• Audience decline / fragmentation – appeal to younger audiences and ‘art-house’
• 1967 – audience attendance rises for the first time
• Counterculture of late 1960s - counterculture, civil rights movements, unrest, polarisation.
• Escalation of the war in Vietnam
• New directors - film buffs
• Aesthetic influence of European arthouse ink. French New Wave
• New technologies- zoom lens, stedicam
• 1968 –the new X certificate