The decade regarded as “New Hollywood” (roughly 1967-1976) features a new generation of young American filmmakers who created bold and transformative films that arguably saved American cinema. New Hollywood Now leverages the era’s scrappy spirit into an energetic classroom experience through an unprecedented collaboration with longtime Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz, whose years of experience facilitating public film dialogue will enrich our classroom space with cinephilic zeal and invaluable stories. Blending Mankiewicz’s firsthand accounts of these artists and films with our rigorous screening and reading schedule, this course explores New Hollywood’s contemporary resonance through traditional study and lived practice. Supported through generous grants from the School of Literature, Media and Communication and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, New Hollywood Now foregrounds the vitality of revisiting the archives, telling stories about the past, and appreciating how these stories—cinematic and personal—transform American and cinematic futures. Incorporating oral histories, film reviews, student reflections, group projects, and scholarship, this course shows why movies—and why these movies especially—matter. Through studying New Hollywood Now, what can we learn about how we or how film remembers? How can cinema contain and create the myths that bond communities, shape relationships, and define us?