In the 1960s and 1970s, the change of the old and new historical periods occurred in Hollywood, which made the American film enter another glorious period after the golden age. The new Hollywood is the extension and development of the old Hollywood, it is the result of the change of the internal and social cultural environment of the film art. Taking Gone with the Wind and Bonnie and Clyde as examples, this paper discusses the evolution of the old and new Hollywood in narrative mode, value orientation, type evolution, expression techniques and other creative fields with both gender perspectives and social background. At the same time, it clarifies the change of Hollywood films in the historical transformation.

Yuling Jiang. Transformation and Extension: A Brief Discussion on the Evolution of Old and New Hollywood Films. Frontiers in Art Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 10: 1-4. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2023.051001.

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