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The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema [6]), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast, where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was the motion-picture capital of America. The American film industry began at the end of the 19th century, with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion-picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
This is a list of movements in cinema. Throughout the history of cinema , groups of filmmakers, critics , and/or theorists formed ideas about how films could be made, and the theories they generated, along with the films produced according to those theories, are called movements.
The New Wave, French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, the inaugural New Wave cinema movement; Australian New Wave; Indian New Wave, or Parallel cinema; Japanese New Wave, or Nuberu Bagu, which also developed around the same time as the French Nouvelle Vague; Persian New Wave, or Iranian New Wave, started in the 1960s; New German Cinema, new wave of ...
The Film-Makers' Cooperative (a.k.a.The New American Cinema Group, Inc.) is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1961 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Lionel Rogosin, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams, and other filmmakers, for the distribution, education, and exhibition of avant-garde films and alternative media.
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a black cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema.
The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, [19] [20] [11] was previously associated with race films, [21] Poverty Row b movies (e.g. Republic Pictures [22] [23]), exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema [24] [25]), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s ...
The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, [9] [10] [11] was previously associated with b movies, exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema [12]), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s featuring works by pioneer animators Mary Ellen Bute and Oskar ...