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Approaches to New Hollywood The resurgence of Hollywood after 1970s

Introduction

In 1936, President Franklin announced that Americans had a ¡°rendezvous with destiny¡±, and in the 1940s, American domestic film audience reached its highest peak ever, and the ¡°yearly box office receipts of 1.75 billion dollars broke all previous records before 1946¡±.

But all that changed in the next decades, as the massive changes in lifestyle accompanying suburban migration and the related family/housing/baby boom, and as ¡®watching TV¡¯ rapidly replaced ¡®going to the movies¡¯, as ¡°America¡¯s preferred ritual of habituated, mass-mediated narrative entertainment¡±. Therefore, ¡°the dom...

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