Josiah Koser 04/10/2017 Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America, Random House inc., New York City, New York, 1994. The argument made by the author Robert Sklar in his book Movie-Made America has to do with the impact that American movies have had on the country's culture and society as a whole. Sklar says this by stating that, “American movies, through much of their span, have altered or challenged many of the values and doctrines of powerful social and cultural forces in American society, providing alternative ways of understanding the world.”
Later in the chapter, we learn about the censorship that Hollywood introduced during this era. In 1948, the Supreme court ruled that the studios had to divide themselves of their distribution outlets, thereby drastically reducing their income. According to Kolker, this also marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Golden Age. We also read about how television was impacting the attendance at the theaters. The film industry increased the size of the screen to compete.
Many Americans enjoyed the new films because they provided joy and laughter after the recent war. Most of the films during this time were silent with some background music like a piano accompanying them, but it wasn’t until 1923 when the first movie with an actual soundtrack was produced (“1920s films”). Movie ticket sales went from 50 weekly in 1920 to 90 million weekly in 1929 (“digital history”). New movies were coming out and each was more advanced than the last with new movie stars and ideas influencing the fashion and culture of America. The American people became obsessed with movies and attending the theater became a regular weekend thing to do (Hanson).
The beginnings of this industry was created in the same city, Hollywood, for its weather and surroundings, but the industry itself did not begin as fancy as it is now. The beginning of the industry was not glamorous it was created by jewish immigrants initially. The industry was censored selves proactively. Talkies were invented, which were “a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc” (dictionary.com). These new types of movies and things made the movie industry boom because of the drastic change between talkies and silent films, which had no talking at all.
Without the decision to move the film making associations to Hollywood, the movie industry might not be where it is today. A great population of people migrated to Los Angeles in search for bigger and better production opportunities. In 1910, a movie director,
The opinion of cinema was forever changed as films were now looked as more than just entertainment, but
Hollywood is also the birthplace for movie studios. The industry affected the 1920’s and modern times. The way in which it affected the 1920’s, was that everything about the film industry dramatically grew with the innovations and technologies that were created. It affected modern times by introducing a phenomenal industry that needed to be kept up to date in every aspect. It also affected times by being such a great financial stronghold that everyone in the world knew about.
Since the Wall Street stock market crash in 1929, millions of business went bankrupt and millions of people felt there was no hope for live and would like to give up the life. However, the economic crisis drove people to seek for higher living standard like the popularity of big band and jazz music was increase, as well as photographing, listing to video, watching films and many kinds of entertainment activities. In fact, in the 1940s, it was the golden age of American films. Due to Griffith and Charlie Chaplin and other professional won the world reputation for American films, as well as the Wall Street meddling in the movie industry, Hollywood movie grew rapidly and called for part of the profits. The raised of capital has led to the film
To what extent do Hollywood films reflect social and cultural behavior of America? Outline: History of Hollywood film industry: 1917—1960: the development of Hollywood film industry and characterized most styles to this day: biography, fiction, action, horror, animated, comedy, etc. After the World War One, the America experienced a cultural boom which resulting different forms of culture appears. In order to make films appeal to the audience, various cultural elements were introduced into the production of films.
Hollywood movies affect national culture in various ways. In one sense, movies could be characterized as America’s storytellers. Hollywood movies „Americanize“ global values and beliefs ,therefore they in a way diminish national culture traits and adapt and reinforce American customs. People tend to copy the ideas,customs and culture of American people or in other words they tend to acculturate. So called „Americanization“ is
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This question has been hotly debated for centuries with no hardline conclusion. The question “do films shape culture, or does culture shape films?” has the same cyclical, unanswerable nature. Films cannot change culture without in some way reflecting it, and films cannot reflect culture without in some way affecting it. Film is inextricably intertwined in today’s culture, both as a means and as an outcome.
There is no doubt that Hollywood has many influences on society especially on young age. The term “Hollywood” refers to the film industry where located to the west and northwest of downtown Los Angeles, California (“Where is Hollywood,” n.d.). Not only in Los Angeles that television shows and movies of Hollywood are popular but also all around the country and worldwide. The audiences of Hollywood’s products are in various age starting from little kids to elders. Hollywood has incredible ability to spread believes, cultures, morals and even political influence on society.
Film like The Passion of Christ it is combine with the Roman culture. The hoollywood productions have ever been making the world aware about the social knowledge or the culture they make mavies to approximate some cultures that have been positively to the films and the audiens. Also the American culture is one of the most adopting cuture from others fims out of US and this aspect have make the Hollywood nowon to not trying to promote the American cuture but to bring others cultures to their nighbords. The Islamic religion and culture is the one that is the most crucial to Hollywood films. Also people now can see the differences and changes around the world when they see movies they are able to obtain cultural awareness of different nations or cultures they can analize the deferensies.
Film is specifically made to be sold. Film is an art that is also a source of income. No matter the format, be it big budget or independent, film is a commercial product. According to Comolli and Narboni in their essay “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism”, film is “transformed into a commodity”. Film is “a product, manufactured within a given system”, is it the product of the ideologies that dominates where it was constructed.
Why did Hollywood become the dominant film industry with audiences inside and outside America by the end of the 1930s? Hollywood became the dominant film industry with audiences inside and outside America by the end of the 1930’s due to the implications of World War II Hollywood rose to become the dominant film industry with audiences inside and outside America by the end of the 1930’s due to the implications caused by World War II. The Hollywood era of the 1930’s, which is also known as the Golden Age, was filled with great benefits for the film studios of Hollywood. The main factors that, enabled Hollywood to become the dominant film industry by the end of the 1930’s included a combination of factors including: the rise of the five major studios, the Great Depression, and technological developments.
