Mean Streets & Modernism

The modernist project in New Hollywood includes the following:

● A questioning/reconfiguring of US mainstream cinema on a technical and narrative/thematic level

● An examination of interiority of characters● A general revision of the hero figure● Self-reflexive style of film-making

Part 1: How does Mean Streets exemplify a modernist text?

Part 2: How does Mean Streets announce itself as a ‘new’ type of film/ a modernist film? Look at the introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KMxLvsvLI