The Hollywood Renaissance embraced aspects of ‘art’ cinema to some extent, but it proved short-lived, the product of a period of transition that soon passed in the later 1970s, with both the consolidation of a blockbuster-centred regime in Hollywood and a political turn to the right in American culture. Space for edgier, more questioning or ‘difficult’ filmmaking was generally reduced in Hollywood from the end of the decade. Some individuals associated with the Hollywood Renaissance continued to make less conventional films, sometimes for the studios, where past box-office achievements or status and reputation gave them sufficient clout (Martin Scorsese, for.
