Bikers, Outlaws, and Mobsters: A Brief History of New Hollywood

Bikers, Outlaws, and Mobsters: A Brief History of New Hollywood

By the end of the 1950s, Hollywood studios were verging on economic disaster after forty years of ruling U.S. and world cinema. Much of their core audience had grown up and moved to the suburbs, away from the grand city theaters but infinitely closer to their new living-room TVs. In desperation, the studios had cast their future on new technologies like “widescreen” Cinemascope projection and big-budget costume epics like Cleopatra to lure them …