<P>On December 8, 1967 <i>Time</i> magazine put <i>Bonnie and Clyde</i> on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence ? Sex ? Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the biggest hits of the period (including <i>The Graduate</i> [1967], <i>The Exorcist</i> [1973] and <i>Jaws</i> [1975]). He relates the distinctive features of these hits to changes in the film industry, in its audiences and in American society at large.</P>