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It has been 50 years since the start of the 1970s decade, hard to believe! Filmsite has recently revised its 6-page comprehensive feature article about the most important trends and films in the decade. The decade became a creative high point in the US film industry. Restrictions on language, adult content and sexuality, and violence had loosened up, and these elements became more widespread. The hippie movement, the civil rights movement, free love, the growth of rock and roll, changing gender roles and drug use certainly had an impact. And Hollywood was renewed and reborn with the earlier collapse of the studio system, and the works of many new and experimental film-makers (wrongly nicknamed "Movie Brats") during a Hollywood New Wave. The counter-culture of the time had influenced Hollywood to be freer, to take more risks and to experiment with alternative, young film makers, as old Hollywood professionals and old-style moguls died out and a new generation of film makers arose. >> See related article: The History of Movies in the 1970s Decade |
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About Filmsite.org
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About Film Historian Tim Dirks
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Filmsite.org is an award-winning website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers
and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed
plot synopses, review commentary and 
Tim
Dirks created the popular filmsite.org website, aka Greatest
Films, in
mid-1996, and it celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary in 2016. He
has been writing about and reviewing films ever since. As of September
2008, the site was acquired by American Movie Classics (AMC) LLC, and
then as of July 2011, it became part of a new company called AMC Networks,
Inc. Tim continues to be the sole contributor, manager, and editor of
Filmsite - he adds significant content to the site spanning all the years
of cinematic history, and often writes blogs and other film-related articles,
including Sundance TV's completed series 1001 Movies You Must See
Before You Die. The site averages between 30-50 million page views per year
(see 
Film
critic and columnist Roger Ebert, author of The Great Movies (2002),
The Great Movies II (2005), and The Great Movies III (2010) has made
many 