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How to avoid blurring the lines between fandom and criticism

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  Nowadays, in the world of film criticism, film fans tend to gravitate towards those who usually lack film knowledge only to hide their lack of knowledge behind a cinephile costume. The cinephile costume term means that someone pretends to be a cinephile by outwardly having knowledge by fooling people into thinking he/she has knowledge to get attention to boost their popularity only to cause deception. This approach has made a lot of people think that they can placate to the masses by hiding their subpar knowledge behind this false image in order to get so much clout for the sake of being popular by purposely saying things like ignore the critics along with telling others that knowledge is not needed in order to be a cinephile since they think that loving movies is enough to be a cinephile. Being a causal is different than being a cinephile considering that they are two different terms in cinema to where there should be one that is chosen over the other if someone wants to know who th

The History and Lasting Impact of the New Hollywood Era

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The New Hollywood Era is truly one of the greatest movements in cinema history because of how it was able to break new ground in terms of truly and honestly reflecting American life in film without being artificial when it comes to tackling serious subjects. Plus, it gave birth to filmmakers like directors, cinematographers, editors, among others who took art seriously as a way to combat studio interference along with political correctness that was ubiquitous and prevalent in the studio controlled Golden Age of Hollywood only to allow studios to let the new crop of filmmakers do what they want to do for the sake of maintaining creative control due to the purpose of creating authentic art. The New Hollywood Era will always be a watershed movement in cinema as a result of its rebellious and subversive nature on filmmaking. After years of success, the studio system era that ran from the silent era to the 1960's was collapsing because of factors like weak box office returns, the popula