New American Cinema

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The New American Cinema was a style and movement of American cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.

Filmmakers like John Cassavetes , Shirley Clarke , Robert Frank , Lionel Rogosin grouped together with Jonas Mekas around the film magazine Film Culture . They rejected the type of production of the commercial Hollywood film, using the simplest film production means such as 16 mm material, 16 mm foundfootagematerial, amateur actors and the editing technique of experimental film. Direct cinema techniques were adopted, so that there was not necessarily a script in the conventional sense, but rather the films emerged from the open approach. After editing, the story was processed associatively. Films of the current were produced on a small budget, such as the 1959 film Shadow by John Cassavetes.

The films of this current have the common goal of evoking the highest level of emotion. At the end of the 1960s, the group "New American Cinema" disbanded. They regrouped to the movement of the underground film, which Birgit Hein and Wilhelm Hein belong to in Germany.

literature

  • Adriano Apra: New American cinema: il cinema indipendente americano degli anni sessanta. Ubulibri, Milan 1986.
  • Jon Lewis: The New American Cinema. Duke University Press, Durham 1998.

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