The new Hollywood
from Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars

On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence … Sex … Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the biggest hits of the period (including The Graduate [1967], The Exorcist [1973] and Jaws [1975]). He relates the distinctive features of these hits to changes in the film industry, in its audiences and in American society at large.

Contents; Acknowledgements ; introduction: 1967 and beyond; 1 superhits of the new hollywood and the roadshow era; 2 from the roadshow era to the new hollywood I; 3 from the roadshow era to the new hollywood II; conclusion: 1977 and beyond; appendices; bibliography; index