Production Context (Institutional)

• French New Wave influence
• Director in control - Package Unit System

  • Collapse of the studio system
• Not vertically integrated - audience fragmentation
• Filmed on location
• Paramount anti trust case 1948
• Collapse of the Hays Code (1968)
• Cinemas no longer under control of the studios
• Arthouse cinema - French New Wave and Japanese cinema
• Rise in auteur directors
• Taboo subjects, unpredictable narrative structure, experimental technique