Unlike the squeaky clean 60s the 70s was noted for films with creative and memorable subject matter that reflected the questioning spirit and truth of the times.
Young viewers and directors refused to compromise with mediocre films and supported stretching both the boundaries and conventional standards of the time. When restrictions on language, adult content and violence loosened for the first time, movies began to expand their horizons.
The civil rights movement, free love, the growth of rock and roll, changing gender roles and increased drug use also had an impact. Hollywood was renewed and reborn and the works of many new and experimental film-makers created a Hollywood New Wave.
Many of the audiences and movie-makers of the late 60s had seen a glimpse of new possibilities, new story-telling techniques and more meaningful 'artistic' options, by the influences of various European "New Wave" movements (French and Italian) and the original works of other foreign-language films.
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