Classical Hollywood cinema

Currently, American films are a common way for the average American to spend his/her free time. Individuals watch movies for escapism and entertainment, but the art form that the film industry grew out of is not as common to the public eye: modern American theatre. Modern American film and modern American theatre have more in common than what people might believe, while still retaining their own uniqueness. For example, one similarity both theatre and film share is the formula, or definition, of…

“The Hollywood Style” is the first episode of the 1995 American TV show called 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…

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…

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…

Introduction Mass media has been successful in presenting quality and block buster films that Filipinos have been patronizing over the past years since the inception of the Golden Age of Philippine Cinema in the 1950’s. Cinema has been part of Filipinos’ lives. Watching movies for Filipinos is one of the ways to relieve and amuse themselves and to escape from their despairs for a short time. In our society, mass media has a great influence. It plays a vital role in forming and reflecting public…

The studio system was essential in the success of early American Cinema. It ensured that total control of the movies belonged to the biggest studios in Hollywood that made them (Classic Hollywood Central Editors, 2011). The ‘Big Five’ created the studio system to ensure they made the most profit. The ‘Big Five’ consisted of 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Paramount, Warner Bros., and RKO Radio. There were three smaller studios close behind: Universal, Columbia, and United Artists…

The studio system is known today as a time when Hollywood produced their films at their own studios. During this time film companies held the market for all films, held workers into contracts and monopolized the industry. During this time period eight studios; Columbia, MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, United Artists, Universal and Warner Bros. produced 75 percent of the films made in the United States. Seven of the eight studios released an average of 45 films per year. The time in…

The impact that the world had on the film industry pushed them toward changing the Code to a Rating system. This was the idea that there would be no approval or disapproval of the content, instead, they would give caution to parents about the movie (MPAA 52). This gave the industry a chance to break out of that constant conformity and make whatever movie they could come up with. The caution didn’t come in just a caption about the movie - it came in a certain rating system that the National…

In the film Chan is Missing, director Wayne Wang creates a detective story in which he allows the audience to be engaged with the characters in the film in order to find Chan. Upon the adventure of finding Chan, the audience comes to realize that Chan is this complex, changing, and elusive figure that Wang has presented. Presenting Chan through multiple perspectives, Wang undercuts the homogenized Asian America stereotypes and shows how they have no solitary identity. In essence, with the…

1997 was a milestone in Kon's career for two reasons: The release of this particular movie in cinemas and the initiation of his collaboration with Madhouse Inc, who sheltered his genius until his last birth. Prefect Blue was initially meant for a live action TV series; however, after the Kobe earthquake in 1995, the production studio suffered extensive damages resulting in a reduction of the budget, up to a point that solely allowed the shooting of an OVA. Nevertheless, while the shootings were…