Video Essay: From New Hollywood to American Indie

This Video essay outlines the development of American New Wave from the Paramount anti-trust case to the new age filmmakers that separate themselves from the studios of Hollywood. Sadly it doesn’t detail the development of the new American Indie after the 1970s. The essay focuses on certain directors that have forwarded the movement through their influential films. The essayist talks about the avantgarde beginnings of the New Hollywood and how certain directors made self-funded art movies that had to be screened in rented cinemas. He then briefly mentions Amos & Marsha Vogel, who bought a cinema just to screen Indie movies, a major inspiration for filmmakers at the time. From this cinema, called cinema 16, all kinds of films went public and eventually lead to the modern new era filmmakers.