The documentary Moguls and Movie Stars (2010) highlights the struggles movie theatre owners went through after world war II. After the war, people were no longer in urban areas, which means they were further from movie theatres. After the rise of the drive-in movie theatre, “the studios were losing control over when and where moviegoers saw their movies” (Haber, 2010). The movie moguls had to change way they connect with the viewers. The moguls tried to compete with television by introducing cinemascope¬— “a wide-screen process using anamorphic lenses in photographing and projecting the film” (Dictonary.com, 2018).
As the popularity of movies rose into the 1920s and 1930s, systems were put into place to help regulate the films being produced by each of the major studios. This initial regulation system became known as “the studio system”. The studio system was a strategy employed by the eight major studios to better regulate their businesses in order to help protect them from any potential risks or setbacks during production. During the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, the active film production companies were categorized into four classifications: major studios, minor studios, “B” (Poverty Row) studios, and independent producers.
“Liberty and freedom were at the heart of Hopper's Americanism, conveying the basic right to live one's life free of external restraints and to privilege independence and individualism over social qualities or collective interests.” Furthermore, Frost shows that Hopper’s representation on the essentials of democracy and capitalism were curtailed. Hopper’s influence upon her readers and popular culture helped impact the denouncement of the “Hollywood Ten.” “When movie industry ownership and management gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel in December 1947 and decided to blacklist the Hollywood Ten, and the five with studio contracts were either fired or suspended.
Around this time there was dramatic rise in the production of films. Some companies such as Fox went from 4 films a year to over 175 by 1918. Hollywood has had a direct influence on the culture of America and the world at large. They have romanticised events that they probably should not have such as war and gangsters, such genre films were popular in the late 20’s and early 30’s. They have directly affected public opinion for better or worse by creating films which then directly led to the creation of censorship with the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) “Don’ts” and “Be Carefuls.”
He puts together an article that pushes the reader into reading the information and provides an argument for the House of unAmerican Committee. And he also supports the argument of how the committee puts together the films. The third source informs the reader of the “panic in Hollywood” and how it really brings out the fear in the citizens of the united streams because their favorite film writers have gone for a trial for being a communist. This article was written by James Felton. These three articles have brought together an understanding of the communists “invading”
The film industry is a major contributor to the entertainment economy and is continually growing and becoming stronger despite all odds. It has shown immense growth right from “1920’s were when the movie industry began to truly flourish, along with the birth of the “movie star”(history cooperative). Twentieth Century Fox, an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox has become one of leading studios in North America and the world producing some of the highest grossing films in the world like Avatar, Titanic, star wars: Episode 1-
Film got people the news they wanted to hear through an exciting, action-packed, or family-fun movie, and the news that these people want to hear is that America can win this war. “Hollywood – the very name was a symbol, a term of art. Ironically the movie industry became known by that shorthand term just as Hollywood proper itself ceased to exist”(Koppes, Clayton R., and Gregory D). Hollywood, back then and still today represented the face of film and was a symbol. Hollywood’s films were a representation of how Americans wanted to feel about the war and the hope they wanted to have even though it was sometimes hard to have since the war was such a hard fought battle.
Throughout the past century, film has evolved into a highly profitable industry with thousands of aspects tot the
In the 1915 court case of Mutual Film Corporation v. Ohio Industrial Commission the Supreme Court ruled that, “…the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit … not to be regarded… as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion” (Hollywood Censorship). This means that movies are no longer considered free speech and are not protected under the First Amendment. Since movie are no longer protected under the First Amendment the U.S. government now has the power to pass laws censoring movies. Hollywood does not want this to happen, so in 1922 Hollywood creates the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). They hire William H. Hays to keep the government from doing anything drastic dealing with Hollywood.
Throughout the history, the mode of Hollywood production has long been inclined to minimizing risks and maximizing profits. The self-replicating and income-promising high concept products thus became dominant within the industry for being commercially safe. In this essay, Justin Wyatt argues that the traits of high concept is essential in the delineation of American film history through three perspectives – the transformation of the auteur, television and ideological agenda of high concept, and the alternatives to this style. One way to understand high concept as a potent force is to observe the circumstances of the auteurs in the post war era.
Apart from the film’s historical account on the American society and politics, the analysis of the film could also reveal the history of American film. By studying the aesthetics and technical of the film, we can understand how the story telling through screen has evolved. Furthermore, studying from the consumer point of view, we can also understand how films have been consumed over the years. Film
Discuss the role of censorship in the construction of classic Hollywood Cinema. Censorship is something we all do to ourselves. Understanding why and how we choose to self regulate our sensory experiences is crucial in understanding representations in classic Hollywood cinema and how it functioned on an economic and psychoanalytical level. Self-regulating began long before the enforcement of the MPPC (Motion Picture Production Code) in 1934 when the Catholic Legion of Decency threatened to boycott cinema. For well over a century, individuals found that by refusing or rejecting certain images or text from social contexts they could benefit others or themselves.
During the 1970s the American film industry saw a demand for films that spoke to the reformist values of the generation that had emerged out of the late 1960s. Independent films are superior to big-budget, highly marketed, mass-oriented films in many ways. The first and most obvious difference is their content (King, 2007). Indie releases were never easy, but there is a definite place for both in a chain’s programming. Chain’s screen Batman vs Superman and also show indie drama like “Too Late,’ or horror films like ‘Hush’ & ‘The Witch,’ to easily find the balance between individual films & big-budget productions.
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
Hollywood ended up noticeably acclaimed since the mid 1900s for the birth and improvement of the American Cinema Industry (1). Today, Hollywood is known as the core of motion picture
