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The sixties was a decade fraught with social and political upheaval throughout the Western world. The voices of the dissenting and disaffected replaced those of fifties post-war conformity, with the feminist and civil rights movements alongside the politicisation of the youth ushering in a new era of change and possibility, as though "a revolution had bought about a permissive age" (Bugge 2017). As the social political landscape was reshaped and redefined, the film industry too began to change. The resultant era of the "Hollywood Renaissance" saw filmmakers express through their work the changing social politi...
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