The First Statement Of The New American Cinema Group

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When new American cinema group formed they also addressed the people with The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group, which is where they declared themselves “The Group” and where they outlined nine principles of filmmaking that would distinguish them from the “morally corrupt, aesthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring” films of classical Hollywood (New American Cinema Group, 80). The new principles of filmmaking included “personal expression,” rejection of censorship, “new forms of financing,” “abolishing the budget myth,” were “against the present distribution and exhibition policies,” “plan to establish a new distribution center,” establish a “film festival” for the east coast, bring change to the