Hollywood Cinem The North American Way Of Life

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During the 30s and 40s, the North American film industry will develop a system that, thanks to the effective global control of the market, constitutes the origin of the subsequent of the North American cinema. Its potential was based on the vertical integration of the entire process of creating a movie. Developing a system to control the production, the distribution and the exhibition of films. The possession of cinemas was the engine that moved the industry. In this way, they could manage to produce movies, distributed the entire world. So, this industry attracted professionals of the cinema, since they needed all the staff possibles to produce that huge amount of films. The powerful call of the industry of Hollywood would finish for attracting Hitchcock, who previously realized exit movies in the United Kingdom as The 39 Steps (1935). Alfred Hitchcock remained impressed by the top resources that had the American studies, in comparison with the financial limitations that often they had found in England. Hollywood cinema has managed to establish itself in the culture of the whole world due to political and economic reasons. The effort of the United States to export its “American Way of Life” and its model of doing politics has also influenced cinema, used to expand the Soft Power of the nation. …show more content…

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