BBBBBOOOOOOKKKKK The relationship between film and society continue in the 1930’s. With the start of the great depression came the start of the Breen Office. The Breen Office regulated films in the mid 1930’s and the movie makers decided to embrace the American Values the Breen Office was trying to stand for. Sklar states that this new sense of American Values in film helped to “boost the morale of a confused and anxious people by fostering a spirit of patriotism, unity and commitment to national values,” (3597).
The Paramount decision happened in 1948. This was a supreme court case. The ruling of this case decided if movies studios would also own movie theaters and hold exclusive rights to their theaters. The movie studios were monopolizing the industry. This court decision changed the way Hollywood was run.
The Hollywood studio system changed dramatically during the 1950’s. Hollywood saw the emergence of a new platform of entertainment, which negatively affected sales, film production and society as a whole. Film studios no longer controlled which movies were seen or where people saw them due to the Superior Court ruling U.S. vs. Paramount Picture Inc. The invention of the television brought much change to the America and the American film experience.
In the early 1940s televisions were becoming popular in American homes. In the beginning of television there were no 'large networks' or 'must see TV' shows, mostly just presidential debates and sporting events were broadcasted. When the federal government made the studios sell their theater holdings they also blocked them from purchasing television stations as well. Television was gaining power just as the Hollywood Studio System was beginning to fall apart. This is something that would greatly effect the future of Hollywood.
These days, Hollywood continues what it started in the 1900’s and has helped shape the social culture and sometimes swaying minds. Some big giants along the way were Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20h Century, and Fox. Their success gave way to how we view movies today. Another big growth area was the viewing of foreign cultures. Like the movie City of God.
The Cold War affected film other than just as a means of propaganda. In Hollywood, the HUAC forced hundreds of people working in the movie industry to renounce all left-wing political views and testify against one another. More than five-hundred people lost their jobs. Many of these “blacklisted” movie industry workers were not able to work for more than a
The new studio system took Hollywood by storm between the early 1910’s, and continued until the studio systems decline in the 1950’s which were primarily due to the government’s influence and federal taxes. There was a studio system in place pre-1920, however they did not have much influence and there was many independent film makers dominating the entertainment industry at that time, these older studios often varied in budgets, styles, and general film content, but this changed with the new studio system. Thomas Schatz mentions in his book The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, the old studio systems have failing, and if they haven’t already, they failed, because there was ‘no longer a market’ and the old studios were only surviving due to success of the big ‘motion pictures created in earlier years’. This ultimately led to a new system being created in Los Angeles.
The early years of the 40s decade were not promising for Hollywood, especially after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and the resulting loss of foreign markets. However, Hollywood film production rebounded and reached its peak during the years 1943 to 1946, now that the technical challenges of the early 30s sound era were far behind. Following the end of the war, Hollywood 's most profitable year in the decade was 1946, with all-time highs recorded for theatre
Hollywood's primary objective in Europe following the end of WWII was to make each nation's private industry powerful enough to uphold the large-scale spread of American films. The Italian Neorealist filmmakers often used non-actors in central roles, in the manner of Soviet Montage. After World War II, times began to shift. Before the war, Italy was one of the most productive and prominent filmmaking countries. They specialized in large budget epic films, with enormous sets and thousands of actors.
In the 1920s, movies became the most popular form of American entertainment. No one expected these films, that were once only a couple seconds long, to influence history as much as they did. This addition of technology to the American lifestyle had the rich and the poor lined up to see the newest showings. The movies reflected American culture and personalities. The film industry made an outstanding increase when it changed location, met competition, and when it began adding sound and color.
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.
The Hollywood institution has been the dominant force throughout motion picture history due to the studios’ cooperative control of distribution as well as production. During the 1930’s, five major studios that became known as The Big-Five and
