1970s americana

His films like Taxi Driver and Mean Streets capture the gritty urban decay and moral corruption of 1970s America with unflinching authenticity.

Nashville and other works deconstruct American mythology and social institutions through interconnected narratives that epitomize 1970s cinema's experimental approach.

Badlands romanticizes and interrogates the American dream through the story of young outlaws set against a landscape of 1970s rural Americana.