The period of New Hollywood (1967-1978) features independent young filmmakers (such as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Alan Pakula, Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese) who created bold and transformative films (such as The Godfather, The Graduate, Jaws, The Last Picture Show, Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Klute, In the Heat of the Night, Three Days of the Condor) that arguably saved American cinema. The course will also fold in artists such as Elaine May, Barbara Loden, Barbara Kopple, and Claudia Weill—filmmakers whose generic and nonfictional practice work within while countering the now-canonical films of this period. Particularly important for Georgia Tech’s film students, the course privileges film history as alive, dynamic, and interactive. Incorporating oral histories, film reviews, student reflections, group projects, and scholarly assessments, “New Hollywood Now” shows why movies—and why these movies especially—matter.