Most cinephiles consider the 1970s a high point for American movies. By the end of the 1960s, the studio system that dominated the movies from the beginning broke down, making room for the New ...

Image Credit: Allied Artists Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Most cinephiles consider the 1970s a high point for American movies. By the end of the 1960s, the studio system that ...

The New Hollywood is a term used to describe a time when filmmakers were given more freedom from the studios to explore and experiment, ushering in a decade of incredibly inventive and emotionally ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...