Oscars, box-office hits – and arthouse, experimental genre cinema
- Written by: Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
In 1972, American cinema was ablaze with the energy of what later came to be called “The New Hollywood”. This was a group of film directors who were bringing a radical kind of cinema to the movie mainstream – movies with big budgets, edgy content and transgressive politics, all for a mass audience.
A few of them – Francis...
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