Essays

How Scorsese and Coppola revolutionized the concept of the American director and the connection audiences had with cinema

Carpenter honors the past and blazes a trail for the future

A pivotal change in how filmmakers see their audience and how audiences see themselves on the screen.

As entertaining and as it is timeless, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead shows that society can be even scarier than zombies.

Looking through the lens of “New Hollywood," we can see why and how Coppola’s film was a monumental work for film history.

Through technical and thematic intrusiveness, they were able to tell real stories for real people

They appealed to different sets of ideals within the American psyche in a time when both those sides came at a crossroad.

Unflinching violence and sex was brought upon the silver screen