In the late 1960s, Hollywood experienced a revival known as the New Hollywood, which significantly modernized film production in Hollywood. This cinema, part of the counter-culture and influenced by Italian neorealism, European modernity and the French New Wave, is characterized by the empowerment of directors in major American studios and the radical representation of themes previously taboo such as the corruption of political powers, sexuality, violence or the massacre of the Indians. New Hollywood also renews the classic genres of American cinema (western)