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New Hollywood

When talking about the notion of a ‘New Hollywood.’ And  how it changes in history. Hollywood film history they make different claims for what is important about that period, producing competing accounts of ‘the new’ in relation to Hollywood. Professional critic,David Bordewell and Janet Staiger identify that post 1960 Hollywood, which the classic Hollywood style. It doesn’t changes a lot from late1980s to early 1990s compare with previous forty years with the great change in 1930 to 1945.

In 1980, Kael stated that “the real power in the new conglomerate Hollywood rested with the advertising and marketing people who not only determine which movies get financed but which movies they are going to sell”.

In all,  “new Hollywood” refer to the Hollywood film after the influence of the rise of Italy new realism movies, meanwhile in the aftermath of the French new wave of shock, experienced in itself from 50’s to 60’s commercial film and television after the recession of movie making impact production in a period of time 1967 to 1976, began to the type of film from the form to the theme of reflection. On the other hand, American social unrest and political crisis; the old film system have become the main background of this period film revolution and evolution.

In 1960s, American society in a series of harsh reality: murder events , the Vietnam war , the civil rights movement starting, economic recession, political crisis. The domestic economic and cultural reasons new Hollywood film generated, seems to be mainly attributed to the film and TV competition.