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New Hollywood

New Hollywood proper noun: a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, characterized by a new generation of young filmmakers and by the prominence of the individual film director as opposed to the studio.

Proper noun

New Hollywood

  1. A movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, characterized by a new generation of young filmmakers and by the prominence of the individual film director as opposed to the studio.

Questions about New Hollywood

What does New Hollywood mean?
New Hollywood means a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, characterized by a new generation of young filmmakers and by the prominence of the individual film director as opposed to the studio.
What part of speech is New Hollywood?
New Hollywood is a proper noun.

Words near New Hollywood in the dictionary

  1. New Hinksey
  2. new historicism
  3. New Holland
  4. New Holland honeyeater
  5. New Holland honeyeaters
  6. New Hollywood
  7. New Holstein
  8. New Hope
  9. new hotness
  10. New Hudson
  11. New Humanism

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