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Abstract

This article aims to analyze the way in which the real urban space of New York is presented in two key cinema works of the so-called New Hollywood: Operation The French Connection (1971), directed by William Friedkin, and Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how the American social malaise of the 1960s and 1970s (led by the Vietnam War, the struggle for Civil Rights, demographic changes and a reactionary counterattack) reverberated in the cinema of the period, especially through the incoherent male gaze of its protagonists and its relationship with New York City.