Definitions from the era provided by the Dictionary of Film Studies:

• Multiplex
• -Surf Films
• -Countercinema
• -Cinema Verite
• -Feminist Cinema
• -Feminist Film Theory
• -Blaxploitation
• -Ideological Criticism
• -New Waves
• -British New Wave
• -Nouvelle Vague
• -New Hollywood
• -Blockbuster

Context provided by Timeline of Cinema: 

Using Sound and Silence for Effect:

History of Film in the 1960s (This is the first of six pages.  Read all Pages.)

History of Film in the 1970s This is the first of six pages.  Read all Pages.

Independent Cinema

Definitions from the Dictionary of Film Studies:

• Independent Cinema
• Independent Cinema in the US
• Indiewood

• Black Independent Cinema

Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Traditional Genres

Definitions from the Dictionary of Film Studies:

• Poststructuralism

Rock'n'Roll High School (1979) was near the leading edge of the new revisioning of the Teen movie.

• Easy Rider (1969) Revisioning of the Western Genre
• When Movies Still Mattered: 1970s American Cinema
• Poststructuralism: From System to Subversion

Camera Development & Optical Special Effects

George Lucas’s technicians built first computer-controlled camera (motion-control) invented by FX supervisor John Dykstra and used through space battles. Also optical effects, matte paintings, models, make-up, animation, and pyrotechnics.

The Birth of the Light Saber:

The Slit Scan Effect used in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Front Screen Projection developmend in the 1970s