Cinema of the United States

positioning within the mise-en-scene to portray that Lisa desires Jeff but he doesn’t feel as strongly of her. Furthermore, these elements help the audience to analyze the film for larger significance and to see that during the Classical Hollywood Cinema era, women are often sexualized in their roles and are subjected to or become objects for the male characters…

of Hollywood through applying a cultural approach with the aim of revealing some pre-occupations and concerns of the citizens of the United States which involve commercial consumerism, progressivism, and their discrepancies. He also attempts to expose the relationships that exist between national identity, social identity, mental rate and the protagonist economic state. Through this approach, he aims to evaluate the extent to which the film reflects on the reality of humanity in intercultural…

to, it plays with odd ideas and its characters are not everyday people. However, if one understands the film and takes time and concentration to read into the subtext of the film, they will find that it is a Classic Hollywood Film with a tad of Art Cinema to spice things…

‘Casablanca’ was released during the golden age of Hollywood film; “a visual and narrative style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1917 and 1960”. It is a style in which falls between formalism and realism. Casablanca makes the shots realistic at the beginning by making the voice over resemble a radio reporter - drawing the audience in and making them feel apart of the story. But the the film is then also filmed in controlled studio…

To do it, filmmakers start to use widescreen and 3-D processes (Alan, 78). It provided a new way of viewing films and attracted more and more audiences to sit in the cinema to watch the movie. Bonnie and Clyde used 1.85: 1 as its aspect ratio (IMBD), which was so-called “flat widescreen” and was distinct from aspect ratio of television (4:3). The using of widescreen stopped Hollywood movie to be replicated on TV. In…

Movies are vastly popular across the United States, while theatre is beloved by a smaller number of the US population, even though the movie industry only grew out of the theatre industry (Bulliet, 783). The movie industry intakes a larger profit than modern theatre companies, for a larger audience…

American Cinema with the host John Lithgow. This episode talks about what makes a Hollywood movie a Hollywood movie through the interviews of filmmakers and relative video clips. This film describes the methods that American production used. Thus, “the Hollywood Style” is an important episode among the series which tells the audience the main characteristics of Hollywood movies and how they succeed. “The Studio System” is the second episode of the 1995 American TV show called American Cinema…

We all know that Hollywood changes things from real life events in the movies that they produce so they can entertain the audience and make the subject they are covering more interesting. A prime example of this is the film Kingdom of Heaven. Hollywood has filled this movie with explosions, gore, and twisted the story to make it more to their liking. The point of this essay is to help inform someone who has no knowledge of how this time period be able to see through the inaccuracies of this…

The bottom line: filmmaking is expensive, and therefore, a film must be efficient in its conveyance of story. Classical Hollywood cinema depends on the idea that cinema is deliberate, pointed, driven quickly through a linear narrative by carefully orchestrated action and plot devices. Transitions are smooth and fast paced, dialogue is pithy and heavily directed, not one second wasted on narrative “blank space”. But what happens to this model when the story a film strives to tell is a story not…

As far as a Hollywood movie goes, everyone wants the perfect Hollywood ending. To be able to have the perfect Hollywood ending, Hollywood first has to make the perfect character. The perfect character consists of someone who is all around good. They have good intentions, a wholesome background, and despite every awful situation they are put in they come out of it a better person. So what better way to portray the perfect character than by making them great with kids? That was, after all, the…