THTRFLM 3L03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bob Rafelson, Mike Nichols, New Hollywood
27 Apr 2016
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C. p reading notes: the new hollywood by: thomas schatz. After world war 2, when hollywood"s entrenched studio system collapsed and commercial television began to sweep the newly suburbanized national landscape. This marked the end of hollywood"s classical era of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, when movies were mass produced by a cartel of studios. Watching tv replaced going to the movies. Hollywood"s survival has been from the steady rise of the hollywood blockbuster: the occasional hit gave way to the calculated blockbuster. This post-1975 era best warrants the term the new hollywood . The government"s postwar dismantling of the vertically integrated studio system ensured a more competitive movie marketplace and a more fundamentally disintegrated industry as well. Eileen meehan suggests in a new perceptive study of batman, to analyze contemporary movies, we must be able to understand them as always and simultaneously text and commodity, intertext and product line .
