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Origins and Fort Lee
{{See also|Silent film}}File:great train robbery still.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|Justus D. Barnes as outlaw leader Bronco Billy Anderson in The Great Train Robbery (1903), considered by some to be the first Western.]]The first recorded instance of photographs capturing and reproducing motion was a series of photographs of a running horse by Eadweard Muybridge, which he took in Palo Alto, California, using a set of still cameras placed in a row. Muybridge's accomplishment led inventors everywhere to attempt to make similar devices. In the United States, Thomas Edison was among the first to produce such a device, the kinetoscope.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}File:Safetylast-1.jpg|thumb|Harold Lloyd in the clock scene from Safety Last!Safety Last!The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was the motion-picture capital of America. The industry got its start at the end of the 19th century with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion-picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. The cities and towns on the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades offered land at costs considerably less than New York City across the river and benefited greatly as a result of the phenomenal growth of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century.WEB,weblink Kannapell, Andrea, Getting the Big Picture; The Film Industry Started Here and Left. Now It's Back, and the State Says the Sequel Is Huge., The New York Times, en-US, live, October 4, 1998, January 19, 2023, December 19, 2019,weblink WEB,weblink Amith, Dennis, Before Hollywood There Was Fort Lee, N.J.: Early Movie Making in New Jersey (a J!-ENT DVD Review), J!-ENT, en-US, live, January 1, 2011, January 19, 2023, December 22, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20191222043615weblink">weblink When Hollywood, California, was mostly orange groves, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a center of American film production., WEB,weblink Rose, Lisa, 100 years ago, Fort Lee was the first town to bask in movie magic, NJ.com, en-US, live, April 29, 2012, January 19, 2023, September 29, 2018,weblink Back in 1912, when Hollywood had more cattle than cameras, Fort Lee was the center of the cinematic universe. Icons from the silent era like Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish crossed the Hudson River via ferry to emote on Fort Lee back lots., The industry began attracting both capital and an innovative workforce. In 1907, when the Kalem Company began using Fort Lee as a location for filming in the area, other filmmakers quickly followed. In 1909, a forerunner of Universal Studios, the Champion Film Company, built the first studio.Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090712034143weblink |date=July 12, 2009 }}, Fort Lee Film Commission. Accessed April 16, 2011. Others quickly followed and either built new studios or leased facilities in Fort Lee. In the 1910s and 1920s, film companies such as the Independent Moving Pictures Company, Peerless Studios, The Solax Company, Éclair Studios, Goldwyn Picture Corporation, American Méliès (Star Films), World Film Company, Biograph Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Pathé Frères, Metro Pictures Corporation, Victor Film Company, and Selznick Pictures Corporation were all making pictures in Fort Lee. Such notables as Mary Pickford got their start at Biograph Studios.Koszarski, Richard. Fort Lee: The Film Town, Indiana University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-86196-652-3}}. Accessed May 27, 2015.Studios and Films {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006092753weblink |date=October 6, 2014 }}, Fort Lee Film Commission. Accessed December 7, 2013.{{Citation|last=Fort Lee Film Commission|title=Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C|isbn=0-7385-4501-5 }}In New York, the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, which was built during the silent film era, was used by the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields. The Edison Studios were located in the Bronx. Chelsea, Manhattan, was also frequently used. Other Eastern cities, most notably Chicago and Cleveland, also served as early centers for film production.WEB, Liebenson, Donald, 'Flickering Empire' details Chicago's early dominance of film industry, Chicago Tribune,weblink February 19, 2015, February 8, 2021, ENCYCLOPEDIA,weblink Cleveland on Film, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University, February 8, 2021, In the West, California was already quickly emerging as a major film production center. In Colorado, Denver was home to the Art-O-Graf film company, and Walt Disney's early Laugh-O-Gram animation studio was based in Kansas City, Missouri. From 1908, Jacksonville, Florida's Motion picture industry saw more than 30 silent film companies establish studios in town, including Kalem Studios, Metro Pictures (later MGM), Edison Studios, Majestic Films,- weblink
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Rise of Hollywood
{{redirect|History of Hollywood|the history of the Los Angeles neighborhood|Hollywood, Los Angeles#History}}File:Hollywoodparty.jpg|thumb|left|Laurel and Hardy with Lupe Vélez in Hollywood Party (1934)]]The 1908 Selig Polyscope Company production of The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Francis Boggs and starring Hobart Bosworth was claimed as the first to have been filmed in Los Angeles, in 1907, with a plaque being unveiled by the city in 1957 at Dearden's flagship store on the corner of Main Street and 7th Street, to mark the filming on the site when it had been a Chinese laundry.NEWS, Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2001, October 15, 2021, Movie Industry's Roots in Garden of Edendale, Rasmussen, Cecilia,weblink Bosworth's widow suggested the city had got the date and location wrong, and that the film was actually shot in nearby Venice, which at the time was an independent city.MAGAZINE, Wrong Site, Wrong Year, But Plaque Unveiled On 1st Pic Made in H'wood, Variety (magazine), Variety, January 1, 1958, 1,weblink October 15, 2021, Archive.org, Boggs' In the Sultan's Power for Selig Polyscope, also starring Bosworth, is considered the first film shot entirely in Los Angeles, with shooting at 7th and Olive Streets in 1909.{{AFI film|36409|In the Sultan's Power}}In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and others. They started filming on a vacant lot near Georgia Street in downtown Los Angeles. While there, the company decided to explore new territories, traveling several miles north to Hollywood, a little village that was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, In Old California, a Biograph melodrama about California in the 19th century, when it belonged to Mexico. Griffith stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York. Also in 1910, Selig Polyscope of Chicago established the first film studio in the Los Angeles area in Edendale and the first studio in Hollywood opened in 1912.BOOK, 2008, Oxford, Oxford University Press (OUP), 535, A Passion for Nature : The Life of John Muir, 978-0-19-516682-8, 191090285, Worster, Donald, Donald Worster, {{rp|page=447}} After hearing about Griffith's success in Hollywood, in 1913, many movie-makers headed west to avoid the fees imposed by Thomas Edison, who owned patents on the movie-making process.BOOK, Pederson, Charles E., Thomas Edison,weblink September 2007, ABDO Publishing Company, 978-1-59928-845-1, 77, Nestor Studios of Bayonne, New Jersey, built the first studio in the Hollywood neighborhood in 1911.{{dubious|reason=Other sources' dates are one or two years later.|date=September 2022}} Nestor Studios, owned by David and William Horsley, later merged with Universal Studios; and William Horsley's other company, Hollywood Film Laboratory, is now the oldest existing company in Hollywood, now called the Hollywood Digital Laboratory. California's more hospitable and cost-effective climate led to the eventual shift of virtually all filmmaking to the West Coast by the 1930s. At the time, Thomas Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production and movie producers on the East Coast acting independently of Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company were often sued or enjoined by Edison and his agents while movie makers working on the West Coast could work independently of Edison's control.Bishop, Jim. "How movies got moving ...", The Lewiston Journal, November 27, 1979. Accessed February 14, 2012. "Movies were unheard if in Hollywood, even in 1900 The flickering shadows were devised in a place called Fort Le, N.J. It had forests, rocks cliffs for the cliff-hangers and the Hudson River. The movie industry had two problems. The weather was unpredictable, and Thomas Edison sued producers who used his invention. ... It was not until 1911 that David Horsley moved his Nestor Co. west."File:Aleja Gwiazd w Hollywood 84.JPG|thumb|right|The Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood BoulevardHollywood BoulevardIn Los Angeles, the studios and Hollywood grew. Before World War I, films were made in several American cities, but filmmakers tended to gravitate towards southern California as the industry developed. They were attracted by the warm climate and reliable sunlight, which made it possible to film their films outdoors year-round and by the varied scenery that was available.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} War damage contributed to the decline of the then-dominant European film industry, in favor of the United States, where infrastructure was still intact.WEB,weblink How the Spanish flu contributed to the rise of Hollywood, November 19, 2020, The stronger early public health response to the 1918 flu epidemic by Los AngelesHow one city avoided the 1918 flu pandemic's deadly second wave compared to other American cities reduced the number of cases there and resulted in a faster recovery, contributing to the increasing dominance of Hollywood over New York City. During the pandemic, public health officials temporarily closed movie theaters in some jurisdictions, large studios suspended production for weeks at a time, and some actors came down with the flu. This caused major financial losses and severe difficulties for small studios, but the industry as a whole more than recovered during the Roaring Twenties.WEB,weblink Closed Movie Theaters and Infected Stars: How the 1918 Flu Halted Hollywood, Hadley, Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, April 1, 2020, In the early 20th century, when the medium was new, many Jewish immigrants found employment in the US film industry. They were able to make their mark in a brand-new business: the exhibition of short films in storefront theaters called nickelodeons, after their admission price of a nickel (five cents). Within a few years, ambitious men like Samuel Goldwyn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers (Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack) had switched to the production side of the business. Soon they were the heads of a new kind of enterprise: the movie studio. The US had at least two female directors, producers and studio heads in these early years: Lois Weber and French-born Alice Guy-Blaché. They also set the stage for the industry's internationalism; the industry is often accused of Amerocentric provincialism.Other moviemakers arrived from Europe after World War I: directors like Ernst Lubitsch, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir; and actors like Rudolph Valentino, Marlene Dietrich, Ronald Colman, and Charles Boyer. They joined a homegrown supply of actors—lured west from the New York City stage after the introduction of sound films—to form one of the 20th century's most remarkable growth industries. At motion pictures' height of popularity in the mid-1940s, the studios were cranking out a total of about 400 movies a year, seen by an audience of 90 million Americans per week.ENCYCLOPEDIA,weblink History of the motion picture, Encyclopædia Britannica, June 14, 2013, File:Buster Keaton in costume.jpg|thumb|190px|left|Buster Keaton in costume with his signature pork pie hatpork pie hatSound also became widely used in Hollywood in the late 1920s.weblink {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429191100weblink|date=April 29, 2007}} After The Jazz Singer, the first film with synchronized voices was successfully released as a Vitaphone talkie in 1927, Hollywood film companies would respond to Warner Bros. and begin to use Vitaphone sound—which Warner Bros. owned until 1928—in future films. By May 1928, Electrical Research Product Incorporated (ERPI), a subsidiary of the Western Electric company, gained a monopoly over film sound distribution.A side effect of the "talkies" was that many actors who had made their careers in silent films suddenly found themselves out of work, as they often had bad voices or could not remember their lines. Meanwhile, in 1922, US politician Will H. Hays left politics and formed the movie studio boss organization known as the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA).WEB,weblink Will Hays and Motion Picture Censorship, The organization became the Motion Picture Association of America after Hays retired in 1945.In the early times of talkies, American studios found that their sound productions were rejected in foreign-language markets and even among speakers of other dialects of English. The synchronization technology was still too primitive for dubbing. One of the solutions was creating parallel foreign-language versions of Hollywood films. Around 1930, the American companies{{Which|date=February 2018}} opened a studio in Joinville-le-Pont, France, where the same sets and wardrobe and even mass scenes were used for different time-sharing crews.Also, foreign unemployed actors, playwrights, and winners of photogenia contests were chosen and brought to Hollywood, where they shot parallel versions of the English-language films. These parallel versions had a lower budget, were shot at night and were directed by second-line American directors who did not speak the foreign language. The Spanish-language crews included people like Luis Buñuel, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Xavier Cugat, and Edgar Neville. The productions were not very successful in their intended markets, due to the following reasons:File:Brown Derby Restaurant, Los Angeles, Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.15|Brown DerbyBrown Derby- The lower budgets were apparent.
- Many theater actors had no previous experience in cinema.
- The original movies were often second-rate themselves since studios expected that the top productions would sell by themselves.
- The mix of foreign accents (Castilian, Mexican, and Chilean for example in the Spanish case) was odd for the audiences.
- Some markets lacked sound-equipped theaters.
Classical Hollywood cinema and the Golden Age of Hollywood
File:Golden Age of Hollywood.png|thumb|left|upright=2.05|Stars of the Classical Hollywood cinema era ({{Circa|1913–1962}}).Top row, l-r: Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, the Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford.Second row, l-r: John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas.Third row, l-r: Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney.Fourth row, l-r: Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren.Bottom row, l-r: Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh with Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary PickfordMary PickfordClassical Hollywood cinema, or the Golden Age of Hollywood, is defined as a technical and narrative style characteristic of American cinema from 1913 to 1962, during which thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. The Classical style began to emerge in 1913, was accelerated in 1917 after the U.S. entered World War I, and finally solidified when the film The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent film era and increasing box-office profits for film industry by introducing sound to feature films.Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a formula – Western, slapstick comedy, musical, animated cartoon, biographical – and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio. For example, Cedric Gibbons and Herbert Stothart always worked on MGM films, Alfred Newman worked at 20th Century Fox for twenty years, Cecil B. De Mille's films were almost all made at Paramount, and director Henry King's films were mostly made for 20th Century Fox.At the same time, one could usually guess which studio made which film, largely because of the actors who appeared in it; MGM, for example, claimed it had contracted "more stars than there are in heaven." Each studio had its own style and characteristic touches which made it possible to know this – a trait that rarely exists today.For example, To Have and Have Not (1944) is notable not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), but because it was written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner (1897–1962), who worked on the screen adaptation.After The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, Warner Bros. gained huge success and were able to acquire their own string of movie theaters, after purchasing Stanley Theaters and First National Productions in 1928. In contrast Loews theaters owned MGM since forming in 1924, while the Fox Film Corporation owned the Fox Theatre. RKO (a 1928 merger between Keith-Orpheum Theaters and the Radio Corporation of AmericaWEB,weblink Thumbnail History of RKO Radio Pictures, earthlink.net, June 19, 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20050912042450weblink">weblink September 12, 2005, dead, ) also responded to the Western Electric/ERPI monopoly over sound in films, and developed their own method, known as Photophone, to put sound in films.Paramount, which acquired Balaban and Katz in 1926, would answer to the success of Warner Bros. and RKO, and buy a number of theaters in the late 1920s as well, and would hold a monopoly on theaters in Detroit, Michigan.WEB,weblink The Paramount Theater Monopoly, Cobbles.com, June 14, 2013, By the 1930s, almost all of the first-run metropolitan theaters in the United States were owned by the Big Five studios—MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox.WEB,weblink Film History of the 1920s, Filmsite.org, June 14, 2013,Rise and decline of the studio system
(File:Hollywood-Studios-1922.jpg|right|thumb|Hollywood movie studios, 1922)Motion picture companies operated under the studio system. The major studios kept thousands of people on salary—actors, producers, directors, writers, stunt men, crafts persons, and technicians. They owned or leased Movie Ranches in rural Southern California for location shooting of westerns and other large-scale genre films, and the major studios owned hundreds of theaters in cities and towns across the nation in 1920 film theaters that showed their films and that were always in need of fresh material.File:Spencer Tracy.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Spencer Tracy was the first actor to win Best Actor award over two consecutive years for his roles in Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938) (and received seven other nominations).]]In 1930, MPPDA President Will Hays created the Hays (Production) Code, which followed censorship guidelines and went into effect after government threats of censorship expanded by 1930.WEB,weblink "Father of the Constitution" is born, This Day in History—3/16/1751, History.com, June 14, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100212214742weblink">weblink February 12, 2010, mdy-all, However, the code was never enforced until 1934, after the Catholic watchdog organization The Legion of Decency—appalled by some of the provocative films and lurid advertising of the era later classified Pre-Code Hollywood- threatened a boycott of motion pictures if it did not go into effect.WEB, Maltby, Richard,weblink More Sinned Against than Sinning: The Fabrications of "Pre-Code Cinema", May 19, 2008, SensesofCinema.com, June 14, 2013, The films that did not obtain a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration had to pay a $25,000 fine and could not profit in the theaters, as the MPPDA controlled every theater in the country through the Big Five studios.Throughout the 1930s, as well as most of the golden age, MGM dominated the film screen and had the top stars in Hollywood, and they were also credited for creating the Hollywood star system altogether.weblink {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621225003weblink|date=June 21, 2007}} Some MGM stars included "King of Hollywood" Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, Gene Raymond, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, and Gene Kelly. But MGM did not stand alone.Another great achievement of American cinema during this era came through Walt Disney's animation company. In 1937, Disney created the most successful film of its time, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.WEB,weblink Disney Insider, go.com, June 14, 2013, This distinction was promptly topped in 1939 when Selznick International created what is still, when adjusted for inflation, the most successful film of all time in Gone with the Wind.weblink {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070514034316weblink|date=May 14, 2007}}Many film historians have remarked upon the many great works of cinema that emerged from this period of highly regimented filmmaking. One reason this was possible is that, with so many movies being made, not every one had to be a big hit. A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors: Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles (1915–1985) and often regarded as the greatest film of all time, fits this description. In other cases, strong-willed directors like Howard Hawks (1896–1977), Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), and Frank Capra (1897–1991) battled the studios in order to achieve their artistic visions.The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka and Midnight. Among the other films from the Golden Age period that are now considered to be classics: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, the original King Kong, Mutiny on the Bounty, Top Hat, City Lights, Red River, The Lady from Shanghai, Rear Window, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, Some Like It Hot, and The Manchurian Candidate.(File:Percentage of the US Population that went to the Cinema on Average, Weekly, 1930-2000.png|thumb|upright=1.15|Percentage of the US population that went to the cinema on average, weekly, 1930–2000)File:Walt Disney Snow white 1937 trailer screenshot (13).jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White movie trailer.]]The studio system and the Golden Age of Hollywood succumbed to two forces that developed in the late 1940s:- a federal antitrust action that separated the production of films from their exhibition; and
- the advent of television.
- Eliminate the block-booking of short film subjects, in an arrangement known as "one shot", or "full force" block-booking.
- Eliminate the block-booking of any more than five features in their theaters.
- No longer engage in blind buying (or the buying of films by theater districts without seeing films beforehand) and instead have trade-showing, in which all 31 theater districts in the US would see films every two weeks before showing movies in theaters.
- Set up an administration board in each theater district to enforce these requirements.
New Hollywood and post-classical cinema
File:Steven Spielberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg|upright|thumb|left|Director and producer Steven Spielberg, co-founder of DreamWorks Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc]]Post-classical cinema is the changing methods of storytelling in the New Hollywood. It has been argued that new approaches to drama and characterization played upon audience expectations acquired in the classical period: chronology may be scrambled, storylines may feature "twist endings", and lines between the antagonist and protagonist may be blurred. The roots of post-classical storytelling may be seen in film noir, in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and in Hitchcock's storyline-shattering Psycho.The New Hollywood is the emergence of a new generation of film school-trained directors who had absorbed the techniques developed in Europe in the 1960s as a result of the French New Wave; the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde marked the beginning of American cinema rebounding as well, as a new generation of films would afterwards gain success at the box offices as well.NEWS,weblink The New York Times, A. O., Scott, Two Outlaws, Blasting Holes in the Screen, August 12, 2007, Filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and William Friedkin came to produce fare that paid homage to the history of film and developed upon existing genres and techniques. Inaugurated by the 1969 release of Andy Warhol{{'s}} Blue Movie, the phenomenon of adult erotic films being publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope),MAGAZINE, Corliss, Richard, Richard Corliss, That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic,weblink March 29, 2005, Time, January 27, 2016, and taken seriously by critics (like Roger Ebert),WEB, Ebert, Roger, Roger Ebert, The Devil In Miss Jones – Film Review,weblink June 13, 1973, RogerEbert.com, February 7, 2015, WEB, Ebert, Roger, Roger Ebert, Alice in Wonderland:An X-Rated Musical Fantasy,weblink November 24, 1976, RogerEbert.com, February 26, 2016, a development referred to, by Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times, as "porno chic", and later known as the Golden Age of Porn, began, for the first time, in modern American culture.NEWS, Blumenthal, Ralph, Porno chic; 'Hard-core' grows fashionable-and very profitable,weblink January 21, 1973, The New York Times Magazine, January 20, 2016, WEB,weblink Porno Chic, www.jahsonic.com, According to award-winning author Toni Bentley, Radley Metzger{{'s}} 1976 film The Opening of Misty Beethoven, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, My Fair Lady), and due to attaining a mainstream level in storyline and sets,BOOK, The Cult Film Reader, Mathijs, Ernest, Mendik, Xavier, Open University Press, 2007, 978-0335219230, {{page needed|date=May 2015}} is considered the "crown jewel" of this 'Golden Age'.WEB, Bentley, Toni, Toni Bentley, The Legend of Henry Paris,weblink June 2014, Playboy, January 26, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160204030128weblink">weblink February 4, 2016, dead, mdy-all, WEB, Bentley, Toni, Toni Bentley, The Legend of Henry Paris,weblink June 2014, ToniBentley.com, January 26, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160201001546weblink">weblink February 1, 2016, live, At the height of his fame in the early 1970s, Charles Bronson was the world's No. 1 box office attraction, commanding $1 million per film.NEWS, Lardine, Bob, Big Bad Bronson,weblink February 10, 2020, The Miami Herald, New York News Service, March 18, 1973, 1H, Newspapers.com, In the 1970s, the films of New Hollywood filmmakers were often both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. While the early New Hollywood films like Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider had been relatively low-budget affairs with amoral heroes and increased sexuality and violence, the enormous success enjoyed by Friedkin with The Exorcist, Spielberg with Jaws, Coppola with The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, Scorsese with Taxi Driver, Kubrick with (2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey), Polanski with Chinatown, and Lucas with American Graffiti and Star Wars, respectively helped to give rise to the modern "blockbuster", and induced studios to focus ever more heavily on trying to produce enormous hits.BOOK, Belton, John, American Cinema/American Culture,weblink November 10, 2008, McGraw-Hill, 978-0-07-338615-7, 384, The increasing indulgence of these young directors did not help.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} Often, they would go overschedule, and overbudget, thus bankrupting themselves or the studio.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} The three most notable examples of this are Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From The Heart and particularly Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, which single-handedly bankrupted United Artists. However, Apocalypse Now eventually made its money back and gained widespread recognition as a masterpiece, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.WEB,weblink Modern Times,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120307030723weblink">weblink March 7, 2012, Sight & Sound, British Film Institute, December 2002, October 16, 2010,Rise of the modern blockbuster and independent films
File:TomHanksJan2009.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|Tom HanksTom Hanks{{Missing information|section|film as an artistic medium beyond being a form of technology or an entertainment product; cinematic styles such as, for instance, neo-noir and American Eccentric Cinema; Pixar; and the entire 1980s|date=August 2023}}In the US, the PG-13 rating was introduced in 1984 to accommodate films that straddled the line between PG and R, which was mainly due to the controversies surrounding the violent content of the PG films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins (both 1984).NEWS, PG-13 remade Hollywood ratings system, Breznican, Anthony,weblink Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 24, 2004, June 27, 2016, Film{{nbsp}}makers in the 1990s had access to technological, political and economic innovations that had not been available in previous decades. Dick Tracy (1990) became the first 35 mm feature film with a digital soundtrack. Batman Returns (1992) was the first film to make use of the Dolby Digital six-channel stereo sound that has since become the industry standard. Computer-generated imagery was greatly facilitated when it became possible to transfer film images into a computer and manipulate them digitally. The possibilities became apparent in director James Cameron's (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) (1991), in images of the shape-changing character T-1000. Computer graphics or CG advanced to a point where Jurassic Park (1993) was able to use the techniques to create realistic looking animals. Jackpot (2001) became the first film that was shot entirely in digital.MAGAZINE,weblink How George Lucas pioneered the use of Digital Video in feature films with the Sony HDW F900, Red Shark News, limited, In the film Titanic, Cameron wanted to push the boundary of special effects with his film, and enlisted Digital Domain and Pacific Data Images to continue the developments in digital technology which the director pioneered while working on The Abyss and (Terminator 2: Judgment Day). Many previous films about the RMS Titanic shot water in slow motion, which did not look wholly convincing.Marsh and Kirkland, pp. 147–154 Cameron encouraged his crew to shoot their {{convert|45|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} miniature of the ship as if "we're making a commercial for the White Star Line".{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float: right; margin-right: 10px;"Contemporary cinema
{{Missing information|section|other types of films other than superhero or blockbuster, discussion about studios other than the typical A-list, discussion regarding superhero fatigue, and information on the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes|date=May 2023}}Since the beginning of 21st century, the theatrical market place has slowly been dominated by the superhero genre. {{as of|2022}}, they are the best-paying productions for actors, because paychecks in other genres have shrunk for even top actors.MAGAZINE, Couch, Aaron, Galuppo, Mia, Kit, Borys, 2022-10-21, Marvel, DC Among Last Bastion for Supersized Paydays,weblink The Hollywood Reporter, en-US, 2022-10-27, In 2023 and 2024, however, Hollywood experts pointed to 'superhero fatigue' as an emerging trend.WEB, Gleiberman, Owen, 2023-06-19, Superhero Fatigue Is Real. The Cure? Make Better Movies Than ‘The Flash’,weblink 2024-03-23, Variety, en-US, Actors such as Paul Dano and directors like Matthew Vaughn have made similar arguments.WEB, Sharf, Zack, 2024-03-04, Paul Dano Says Superhero Fatigue Is a ‘Welcome Moment’ That Will Hopefully ‘Breathe New Life’ Into Comic Book Movies: ‘Quantity Over Quality’ Is a ‘Big Misstep’,weblink 2024-03-23, Variety, en-US, WEB, Tyrrell, Caitlin, 2023-10-18, Why Superhero Movies "Need A Little Bit Of Time Off," According To Kingsman Director,weblink 2024-03-23, ScreenRant, en, In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, blockbuster films such as Black Widow, F9, Death on the Nile and West Side Story were released in theaters after being postponed from their initial 2020 release dates.WEB, September 23, 2020, 'Black Widow,' 'West Side Story,' 'Eternals' Postpone Release Dates,weblink October 4, 2020, Variety, File:Ocean's11Cast.jpg|thumb|left|275px|The Ocean's Eleven Cast: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy GarcÃa, Julia Roberts, and Steven Soderbergh.WEB, Rodrigo, Perez, Exclusive: All-Female 'Ocean's Eleven' In The Works Starring Sandra Bullock, With Gary Ross Directing, The Playlist,weblink 2015-10-29, MAGAZINE, Kevin P., Sullivan, Sandra Bullock will lead an all-female Ocean's Eleven reboot, Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyVarious studios responded to the crisis with controversial decisions to forgo the theatrical window and give their films day-and-date releases. NBCUniversal released Trolls World Tour directly to video-on-demand rental on April 10,WEB,weblink Universal Making 'Invisible Man', 'The Hunt' & 'Emma' Available In Home On Friday As Exhibition Braces For Shutdown; 'Trolls' Sequel To Hit Cinemas & VOD Easter Weekend, D'Alessandro, Anthony, March 16, 2020, Deadline Hollywood, live,weblink March 17, 2020, March 16, 2020, while simultaneously receiving limited domestic theatrical screenings via drive-in cinemas;WEB,weblink 'Trolls World Tour': Drive-In Theaters Deliver What They Can During COVID-19 Exhibition Shutdown—Easter Weekend 2020 Box Office, D'Alessandro, Anthony, 2020-04-14, Deadline, 2020-04-14,weblink April 23, 2020, live, CEO Jeff Shell claims that the film had reached nearly $100 million in revenue within the first three weeks.WEB,weblink Universal's 'Trolls World Tour' Earns Nearly $100 Million in First 3 Weeks of VOD Rentals, 2020-04-28, TheWrap, 2020-04-28,weblink May 6, 2020, live, NEWS, Schwartzel, Erich,weblink WSJ News Exclusive {{!, 'Trolls World Tour' Breaks Digital Records and Charts a New Path for Hollywood|date=2020-04-28|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=2020-04-28 |issn=0099-9660|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428234817weblink|archive-date=April 28, 2020|url-status=live}} The decision was opposed by AMC Theatres, which then announced that its screenings of Universal Pictures films would cease immediately, though the two companies would eventually agree to a 2-week theatrical window.WEB,weblink China Shuts Down All Cinemas, Again, The Hollywood Reporter, March 27, 2020, 2020-04-21,weblink April 23, 2020, live, WEB,weblink Trolls World Tour could be a case study for Hollywood's digital future, Alexander, Julia, 2020-03-18, The Verge, 2020-04-17, WEB,weblink AMC Theaters will no longer play Universal movies after Trolls World Tour's on-demand success, Alexander, Julia, 2020-04-28, The Verge, 2020-04-29,weblink April 29, 2020, live, WEB, D'Alessandro, Anthony, 2020-07-28, Universal & AMC Theatres Make Peace, Will Crunch Theatrical Window To 17 Days With Option For PVOD After,weblink 2020-08-03, Deadline, WEB, Whitten, Sarah, 2020-07-28, AMC strikes historic deal with Universal, shortening number of days films need to run in theaters before going digital,weblink 2020-08-03, CNBC, By December 2020, Warner Bros. Pictures announced their decision to simultaneously release its slate of 2021 films in both theaters and its streaming site HBO Max for a period of one month in order to maximize viewership.WEB,weblink Warner Bros. to Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including 'Dune' and 'Matrix 4,' Both on HBO Max and In Theaters, Rebecca, Rubin, Matt, Donnelly, December 3, 2020, December 3, 2020, Variety, The move was vehemently criticized by various industry figures, many of whom were reportedly uninformed of the decision before the announcement and felt deceived by the studio.NEWS, Masters, Kim, Christopher Nolan Rips HBO Max as "Worst Streaming Service," Denounces Warner Bros.' Plan,weblink July 21, 2021, The Hollywood Reporter, The Hollywood Reporter, LLC, December 7, 2020, 2019 onwards has seen the rise of American streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, and Apple TV+, which came to rival traditional cinema.NEWS, Seitz, Matt Zoller, Matt Zoller Seitz, What's Next: Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame,weblink July 21, 2021, RogerEbert.com, Ebert Digital LLC, April 29, 2019, WEB,weblink 18 January 2023, US streaming market growth continues, despite changes in the industry, Hannah Avery, kantar.com, Industry commentators have noted the increasing treatment of films as "content" by corporations that correlate with the increased popularity of streaming platforms.NEWS, Brew, Simon, Can we stop calling films 'content' now?,weblink July 22, 2021, Film Stories, Film Stories Ltd, October 21, 2019, This involves the blurring of boundaries between films, television and other forms of media as more people consume them together in a variety of ways, with individual films defined more by their brand identity and commercial potential rather than their medium, stories and artistry.NEWS, Taylor, Alex, Are streaming algorithms really damaging film?,weblink July 22, 2021, BBC News, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, February 20, 2021, [Martin Scorsese has] warned that cinema is being 'devalued ... demeaned and reduced' by being thrown under the umbrella term 'content'., Critic Matt Zoller Seitz has described the release of (Avengers: Endgame) in 2019 as "represent[ing] the decisive defeat of 'cinema' by 'content{{'"}} due to its grand success as a "piece of entertainment" defined by the Marvel brand that culminates a series of blockbuster films that has traits of serial television.File:Brooklyn 06 (21489878262).jpg|thumb|150px|right|Saoirse RonanSaoirse RonanThe films (Space Jam: A New Legacy) and Red Notice have been cited as examples of this treatment, with the former being described by many critics as "a lengthy infomercial for HBO Max", featuring scenes and characters recalling various Warner Bros. properties such as Casablanca, The Matrix and Austin Powers,MAGAZINE, Shephard, Alex, Space Jam: A New Legacy Is a Peek Into the Bleak, Cynical Future of Film,weblink July 21, 2021, The New Republic, July 21, 2021, WEB, Rivera, Joshua, Despair, pitiful mortals: Space Jam: A New Legacy is the future of entertainment,weblink Polygon (website), Polygon, Vox Media, Vox Media, LLC, July 22, 2021, July 14, 2021, NEWS, Mendelson, Scott, 'Space Jam: A New Legacy' Review: A Feature-Length Commercial For HBO Max,weblink July 22, 2021, Forbes, July 14, 2021, Quite possibly, as Space Jam: A New Legacy is now a classic example of 'IP for the sake of IP,' a brand extension that exists not because audiences want it but because a studio (and/or the film's star) wants it to continue., NEWS, Kirby, Kristen-Page, 'Space Jam: A New Legacy'—a feature-length ad for Warner Bros.—rises just above mediocrity,weblink July 22, 2021, The Washington Post, WP Company LLC, July 14, 2021, while the latter is a $200 million heist film from Netflix that critics described "a movie that feels more processed by a machine [...] instead of anything approaching artistic intent or even an honest desire to entertain."WEB, Tallerico, Brian, Red Notice movie review & film summary (2021),weblink RogerEbert.com, Ebert Digital LLC, November 4, 2021, November 4, 2021, NEWS, Evangelista, Chris, Red Notice Review: Dwayne Johnson And Ryan Reynolds Bumble Through Netflix's Glossy, Lifeless Action Movie,weblink November 4, 2021, /Film, Static Media, November 4, 2021, NEWS, Lee, Benjamin, Red Notice review—Netflix's biggest film to date offers little reward,weblink November 4, 2021, The Guardian, Guardian News & Media Limited, November 4, 2021, Some have expressed that Space Jam demonstrates the industry's increasingly cynical treatment of films as mere intellectual property (IP) to be exploited, an approach which critic Scott Mendelson called "IP for the sake of IP."WEB, Ebiri, Bilge, Space Jam: A New Legacy Never Thought It Could Be a Good Movie,weblink Vulture.com, Vulture, Vox Media, Vox Media, LLC, July 22, 2021, July 14, 2021, It criticizes shameless, money-grubbing attempts to synergize and update beloved classics ... all the while shamelessly synergizing and updating beloved classics. ... The studios rarely seem to want to do anything new with their properties other than remind us that they still own them., MAGAZINE, Sollosi, Mary, Space Jam: A New Legacy review: LeBron James enters the server-verse in exhausting reboot,weblink Entertainment Weekly, Meredith Corporation, July 22, 2021, July 14, 2021, Martin Scorsese has warned that cinema as an art form is "being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced" to "content" and called blockbusters' overemphasis on box-office returns "repulsive".MAGAZINE, Scorsese, Martin, Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema, en, March 2021, Harper's Magazine,weblink 2023-08-29, 0017-789X, WEB, Taylor, Tom, 2022-10-13, Martin Scorsese calls cinema's profit obsession "repulsive",weblink 2023-08-29, faroutmagazine.co.uk, en-US, Quentin Tarantino opined that the 2020s were one of the "worst" eras "in Hollywood history" on a podcast interview.WEB, Karr, Mary Kate, 2022-11-17, Quentin Tarantino says current era is tied for worst in film history,weblink 2023-08-29, The A.V. Club, en, WEB, Adekaiyero, Ayomikun, 2022-11-17, Quentin Tarantino says the current movie era is one of the 'worst in Hollywood history',weblink 2023-08-29, Insider, en-US, During a masterclass at the 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival, Charlie Kaufman criticized mainstream blockbusters, stating that "[a]t this point, the only thing that makes money is garbage" and encouraged industry professionals to "make movies outside of the studio system as much as possible".WEB, Ntim, Zac, 2023-08-14, Charlie Kaufman Talks AI, WGA Strike & Slams Hollywood System: "The Only Thing That Makes Money Is Garbage" — Sarajevo,weblink 2023-08-29, Deadline, en-US, WEB, Schimkowitz, Matt, 2023-08-15, There's nothing confusing about Charlie Kaufman's opinion of Hollywood,weblink 2023-08-29, The A.V. Club, en, James Gray noted in an interview with Deadline, "When you make movies that only make a ton of money and only one kind of movie, you begin to get a large segment of the population out of the habit of going to the movies", which causes viewership to decrease, though clarified that he has "no problem with a comic book movie". As a solution to the lack of "investment in the broad-based engagement with the product", he suggests that studios "be willing to lose money for a couple of years on art film divisions, and in the end they will be happier."WEB, D'Alessandro, Anthony, 2022-05-22, 'Armageddon Time' Director James Gray On Why Studios Should Be Able To Lose Money On Art Specialty Divisions – Cannes Studio,weblink 2023-08-29, Deadline, en-US,Hollywood and politics
File:81st Academy Awards Ceremony.JPG|thumb|upright=1.35|81st Academy Awards Presentations, Dolby TheatreDolby TheatreIn the 1930s, the Democrats and the Republicans saw money in Hollywood. President Franklin Roosevelt saw a huge partnership with Hollywood. He used the first real potential of Hollywood's stars in a national campaign. Melvyn Douglas toured Washington in 1939 and met the key New Dealers.{{Citation needed|date=June 2013}}Political endorsements
{{See also|Hollywood blacklist|List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign celebrity endorsements}}Endorsements letters from leading actors were signed, radio appearances and printed advertising were made. Movie stars were used to draw a large audience into the political view of the party. By the 1960s, John F. Kennedy was a new, young face for Washington, and his strong friendship with Frank Sinatra exemplified this new era of glamour. The last moguls of Hollywood were gone and younger, newer executives and producers began pushing more liberal ideas.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}Celebrities and money attracted politicians into the high-class, glittering Hollywood lifestyle. As Ron Brownstein wrote in his book The Power and the Glitter, television in the 1970s and 1980s was an enormously important new media in politics and Hollywood helped in that media with actors making speeches on their political beliefs, like Jane Fonda against the Vietnam War.Brownstein, Ronald (1990). The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection. Pantheon Books. {{ISBN|0-394-56938-5}} Despite most celebrities and producers being left-leaning and tending to support the Democratic Party,NEWS, US election 2020: Will celebrity endorsements help Joe Biden?,weblink BBC News, 14 October 2020, NEWS, Celebrities' last-minute pleas to vote: See who's endorsing Biden or Trump,weblink Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2021, this era produced some Republican actors and producers such as Clint Eastwood and Jerry Bruckheimer. Support groups such as the Friends of Abe were set up to support conservative causes in Hollywood, which is perceived as biased against conservatives.WEB, 2017-03-11, In liberal Hollywood, a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump,weblink 2023-08-04, Los Angeles Times, en-US, Former actor Ronald Reagan became governor of California and subsequently became the 40th president of the United States. It continued with Arnold Schwarzenegger as California's governor in 2003.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}Political donations
File:Highsmithmaycompanywilshire.jpg|thumb|right|Academy Museum of Motion PicturesAcademy Museum of Motion PicturesToday, donations from Hollywood help to fund federal politics.NEWS,weblink Politicians Are Doing Hollywood Star Turns, The New York Times, February 5, 2008, David M., Halbfinger, February 6, 2007, On February 20, 2007, for example, Democratic then-presidential candidate Barack Obama had a $2,300-a-plate Hollywood gala, being hosted by DreamWorks founders David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg at the Beverly Hilton.Criticisms
Covert advertising
Native advertising is information designed to persuade in more subtle ways than classic propaganda. A modern example common in the United States is copaganda, in which TV shows display unrealistically flattering portrayals of law enforcement, in part to borrow equipment and get their assistance in blocking off streets to more easily film on location.{{Citation |title=Law & Order: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNy6F7ZwX8I |language=en |access-date=2023-01-29}} Other reputation laundering accusations have been leveled in the entertainment industry, including the burnishing the image of the Mafia.WEB, Peirson-Hagger, Ellen, 2019-11-29, "Hollywood Mafia films are skilful propaganda": Kim Longinotto on why her new film breaks that mould,weblink 2023-01-30, New Statesman, en-US, Product placement also has been a point of criticism, with the tobacco industry promoting smoking on screen.JOURNAL, Mekemson, C., Glantz, S. A., 2002-03-01, How the tobacco industry built its relationship with Hollywood,weblink Tobacco Control, en, 11, suppl 1, i81–i91, 10.1136/tc.11.suppl_1.i81, 0964-4563, 11893818, 1766059, The Centers for Disease Control cites that 18% of teen smokers would not start smoking if films with smoking were automatically given an 'R' rating, which would save 1 million lives.WEB, CDCTobaccoFree, 2022-08-22, Smoking in the Movies,weblink 2023-01-30, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, en-us,Censorship
{{See also|Overseas censorship of Chinese issues|List of TV and films critical of Chinese Communist Party}}Hollywood producers generally seek to comply with the Chinese government's censorship requirements in a bid to access the country's restricted and lucrative cinema market,NEWS, Whalen, Jeanne, China lashes out at Western businesses as it tries to cut support for Hong Kong protests,weblink The Washington Post, 8 October 2019, with the second-largest box office in the world as of 2016. This includes prioritizing sympathetic portrayals of Chinese characters in movies, such as changing the villains in Red Dawn from Chinese to North Koreans. Due to many topics forbidden in China, such as Dalai Lama and Winnie-the-Pooh being involved in the South Park's episode "Band in China", South Park was entirely banned in China after the episode's broadcast.NEWS, South Park ban by China highlights Hollywood tightrope act,weblink Al-Jazeera, 10 October 2019, The 2018 film Christopher Robin, the new Winnie-the-Pooh movie, was denied a Chinese release.Although Tibet was previously a cause célèbre in Hollywood, featuring in films including Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet, in the 21st century this is no longer the case.NEWS, Steger, Isabella, Why it's so hard to keep the world focused on Tibet,weblink Quartz, March 28, 2019, In 2016, Marvel Entertainment attracted criticism for its decision to cast Tilda Swinton as "The Ancient One" in the film adaptation Doctor Strange, using a white woman to play a traditionally Tibetan character.NEWS,weblink Marvel is censoring films for China, and you probably didn't even notice, Bisset, Jennifer, November 1, 2019, CNET, Actor and high-profile Tibet supporter Richard Gere stated that he was no longer welcome to participate in mainstream Hollywood films after criticizing the Chinese government and calling for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.NEWS, Siegel, Tatiana, Richard Gere's Studio Exile: Why His Hollywood Career Took an Indie Turn,weblink The Hollywood Reporter, 18 April 2017,Historic examples
Hollywood also self-censored any negative depictions of Nazis for most of the 1930s in order to maintain access to German audiences.Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Battle for Global Supremacy. Erich Schwartzel. 2022. {{ISBN|9781984879004}}. Around that time economic censorship resulted in the self-censoring of content to please the group wielding their economic influence. The Hays Code was an industry-led effort from 1930–1967 to strict self-censorship in order to appease religious objections to certain content and stave off any government censorship that could have resulted.Relationship with the military
Sexual abuse scandals
Global Hollywood
File:Grauman's Chinese Theatre, by Carol Highsmith fixed & straightened.jpg|thumb|left|The Chinese Theatre before 2007]]File:El Capitan Theatre 2009 Academy Awards.JPG|thumb|The El Capitan TheatreEl Capitan TheatreFile:Egyptian2.jpg|thumb|upright|200px|Egyptian Theatre main entry]]Political economy of communication researchers have long focused on the international or global presence, power, profitability and popularity of Hollywood films. Books on global Hollywood by Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell,BOOK, Miller, Toby, Global Hollywood 2, Govil, Nitin, Maxwell, Richard, Bloomsbury, 2005, 978-1844570393, 2nd, London, Janet Wasko and Mary Erickson,BOOK, Wasko, Janet, Cross-Border Cultural Production: Economic Runaway or Globalization?, Cambria Press, 2008, 978-1934043783, 1st, New York, Kerry Segrave,BOOK, Segrave, Kerry, American Films Abroad: Hollywood's Domination of the World's Movie Screens, McFarland & Company, 1997, 0786403462, 1st, Jefferson, John TrumpbourBOOK, Trumpbour, John, Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 0521651565, 1st, Cambridge, and Tanner MirrleesBOOK, Mirrlees, Tanner, Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization, Routledge, 2013, 9780415519823, 1st, New York, examine the international political economy of Hollywood's power.According to Tanner Mirrlees, Hollywood relies on four capitalist strategies "to attract and integrate non-US film producers, exhibitors and audiences into its ambit: ownership, cross-border productions with subordinate service providers, content licensing deals with exhibitors, and blockbusters designed to travel the globe."JOURNAL, Mirrlees, Tanner, 2018, Global Hollywood: An Entertainment Imperium, by Integration,weblink Cineaction, 1, 100, In 1912, American film companies were largely immersed in the competition for the domestic market. It was difficult to satisfy the huge demand for films created by the nickelodeon boom. Motion Picture Patents Company members such as Edison Studios, also sought to limit competition from French, Italian, and other imported films. Exporting films, then, became lucrative to these companies. Vitagraph Studios was the first American company to open its own distribution offices in Europe, establishing a branch in London in 1906, and a second branch in Paris shortly after.BOOK, Thompson, Kristin, Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction, 2010, McGraw-Hill, Madison, Wisconsin, 978-0-07-338613-3, Other American companies were moving into foreign markets as well, and American distribution abroad continued to expand until the mid-1920s. Originally, a majority of companies sold their films indirectly. However, since they were inexperienced in overseas trading, they simply sold the foreign rights to their films to foreign distribution firms or export agents. Gradually, London became a center for the international circulation of US films.File:Dolby_Theatre_v2.jpg|thumb|200px|Dolby TheatreDolby TheatreMany British companies made a profit by acting as the agents for this business, and by doing so, they weakened British production by turning over a large share of the UK market to American films. By 1911, approximately 60 to 70 percent of films imported into Great Britain were American. The United States was also doing well in Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.More recently, as globalization has started to intensify, and the United States government has been actively promoting free trade agendas and trade on cultural products, Hollywood has become a worldwide cultural source. The success on Hollywood export markets can be known not only from the boom of American multinational media corporations across the globe but also from the unique ability to make big-budget films that appeal powerfully to popular tastes in many different cultures.BOOK, The Cultural Economy of Cities, London, Sage Publications, 2000, A. J., Scott, 0-7619-5455-4, With globalization, movie production has been clustered in Hollywood for several reasons: the United States has the largest single home market in dollar terms, entertaining and highly visible Hollywood movies have global appeal, and the role of English as a universal language contributes to compensating for higher fixed costs of production.Hollywood has moved more deeply into Chinese markets, although influenced by China's censorship. Films made in China are censored, strictly avoiding themes like "ghosts, violence, murder, horror, and demons." Such plot elements risk being cut. Hollywood has had to make "approved" films, corresponding to official Chinese standards, but with aesthetic standards sacrificed to box office profits. Even Chinese audiences found it boring to wait for the release of great American movies dubbed in their native language.WEB, Shirey, Paul,weblink C'mon Hollywood: Is Hollywood going to start being Made in China?, JoBlo.com, April 9, 2013, June 14, 2013,Role of women
{{Update|part=section|date=August 2023}}{{multiple image|caption_align=center|header_align=center| align = right| total_width = 300| image1 = The Laundromat 09 (48816216163).jpg| width1 = 380| height1 = 425| image2 = Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph.jpg| width2 = 380| height2 = 425| footer = Meryl Streep is cited as one of the most influential women in Hollywood and Katharine Hepburn received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer.}}Women are statistically underrepresented in creative positions in the center of the US film industry, Hollywood. This underrepresentation has been called the "celluloid ceiling", a variant on the employment discrimination term "glass ceiling". In 2013, the "top-paid actors ... made {{frac|2|1|2}} times as much money as the top-paid actresses."WEB,weblink Gender wage gap in Hollywood: It's very, very wide., Betsy Woodruff, February 23, 2015, Slate (magazine), Slate, "[O]lder [male] actors make more than their female equals" in age, with "female movie stars mak[ing] the most money on average per film at age 34 while male stars earn the most at 51."WEB,weblink Female Movie Stars Experience Earnings Plunge After Age 34, Maane Khatchatourian, Variety, February 7, 2014, The 2013 Celluloid Ceiling Report conducted by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University collected a list of statistics gathered from "2,813 individuals employed by the 250 top domestic grossing films of 2012."WEB, Lauzen, Martha, The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 012,weblink The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University, 2013-05-20,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130226115330weblink">weblink 2013-02-26, live, Women accounted for:- "18% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors. This reflected no change from 2011 and only a 1% increase from 1998."
- "9% of all directors."
- "15% of writers."
- "25% of all producers."
- "20% of all editors."
- "2% of all cinematographers."
- "38% of films employed 0 or 1 woman in the roles considered, 23% employed 2 women, 28% employed 3 to 5 women, and 10% employed 6 to 9 women."
Race and ethnicity
{{Anchor|Diversity in cinema}}File:Michael Peña Labor Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Auditorium.jpg|thumb|Michael Peña was master-of-ceremonies at the induction of the Farm Worker Movement into the Labor Hall of Fame and dedication of the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Labor in March 2012. During the time, he was cast for the film Cesar Chavez.]]On May 10, 2021, NBC announced that it would not televise the 79th Golden Globe Awards in 2022 in support of a boycott of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association by multiple media companies over inadequate efforts to address lack of diversity within the membership of the association with people of color, but that it would be open to televise the ceremony in 2023 if the HFPA were successful in its efforts to reform.WEB, Ausiello, Michael, May 10, 2021, Golden Globes Cancelled: NBC Scraps 2022 Ceremony As Backlash Grows,weblink TVLine, May 10, 2021, The HFPA would be disbanded two years later as a result of this and other scandals.WEB, Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Acquire Golden Globes,weblink 2023-08-31, Golden Globes, June 12, 2023, en, NEWS, Barnes, Brooks, 2023-06-12, Golden Globes Are Sold and Hollywood Foreign Press Is No More, en-US, The New York Times,weblink 2023-08-31, 0362-4331, American cinema has often reflected and propagated negative stereotypes towards foreign nationals and ethnic minorities.JOURNAL, Lee, Kevin, January 2008, "The Little State Department": Hollywood and the MPAA's Influence on U.S. Trade Relations,weblink Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, 28, 2, For example, Russians and Russian Americans are usually portrayed as brutal mobsters, ruthless agents and villains.NEWS, Will the cliche of the 'Russian baddie' ever leave our screens?,weblink The Guardian, July 10, 2017, "Russian film industry and Hollywood uneasy with one another". Fox News. October 14, 2014NEWS, 5 Hollywood Villains That Prove Russian Stereotypes Are Hard to Kill,weblink The Moscow Times, August 9, 2015, According to Russian American professor Nina L. Khrushcheva, "You can't even turn the TV on and go to the movies without reference to Russians as horrible."NEWS, Hollywood stereotypes: Why are Russians the bad guys?,weblink BBC News, 5 November 2014, Italians and Italian Americans are usually associated with organized crime and the American Mafia.NEWS, Stereotypes of Italian Americans in Film and Television,weblink Thought Catalog, March 26, 2018, NEWS, NYC; A Stereotype Hollywood Can't Refuse,weblink The New York Times, July 30, 1999, Hispanic and Latino Americans are largely depicted as sexualized figures such as the Latino macho or the Latina vixen, gang members, (illegal) immigrants, or entertainers.JOURNAL, Davison, Heather K., Burke, Michael J., 2000, Sex Discrimination in Simulated Employment Contexts: A Meta-analytic Investigation, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 2, 225–248, 10.1006/jvbe.1999.1711, However, representation in Hollywood has improved in recent years, gaining traction in the 1990s, and no longer emphasizes oppression, exploitation, or resistance as primary themes. According to Charles RamÃrez Berg, third wave films "do not accentuate Chicano oppression or resistance; ethnicity in these films exists as one fact of several that shape characters' lives and stamps their personalities."BOOK, Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture, Enrique Pérez, Daniel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 9780230616066, 93–95, Filmmakers like Edward James Olmos and Robert Rodriguez were able to represent the Hispanic and Latino American experience like none had on screen before, and actors like Hilary Swank, Jordana Brewster, Jessica Alba, Camilla Belle, Al Madrigal, Alexis Bledel, Alexa PenaVega, Ana de Armas, and Rachel Zegler have become successful. In the last decade, minority filmmakers like Chris Weitz, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and Patricia Riggen have been given applier{{verify spelling|date=August 2023}} narratives. Films that portray Hispanic and Latino Americans include La Bamba (1987), Selena (1997), The Mask of Zorro (1998), (Goal II: Living the Dream|Goal II) (2007), Overboard (2018), Father of the Bride (2022), and Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves, originally a play which premiered in 1990 and was later released as a film in 2002.File:Jews Say No to Genocide-Hollywood Protest for a Ceasefire in Gaza.jpg|thumb|Pro-Palestinian protest in Los Angeles against the war in Gaza and Hollywood's role in dehumanizing Muslims, November 2023]]African-American representation in Hollywood improved drastically towards the end of the 20th century after the fall of the studio system.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} In old Hollywood, when racial prejudices were socially acceptable, it was not uncommon for white actors to wear black face.NEWS, Blackface and Hollywood: From Al Jolson to Judy Garland to Dave Chappelle,weblink The Hollywood Reporter, February 12, 2019, In the 2016 film Moonlight, masculinity is portrayed as rigid and aggressive, amongst the behavior of young black males in Chiron's teenage peer group.WEB, Watts, Stephanie, Moonlight And The Performativity of Masculinity,weblink One Room with a View, February 17, 2017, February 11, 2019, The expression of hyper-masculinity among black men has been associated with peer acceptance and community.JOURNAL, Fields, Errol, 2016, The Intersection of Sociocultural Factors and Health-Related Behavior in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: Experiences Among Young Black Gay Males as an Example, Pediatric Clinics of North America, 63, 6, 1091–1106, 10.1016/j.pcl.2016.07.009, 27865335, 5127594, Being a gay man within the black community, on the other hand, has been associated with social alienation and homophobic judgement by peers because black gay men are seen as weak or effeminate. In the film, Chiron is placed in this divide as a black gay man and alters his presentation of masculinity as a strategy to avoid ridicule because homosexuality is viewed as incompatible with black masculine expectations. As young kids, Kevin hides his sexuality in order to avoid being singled out like Chiron is. As Chiron grows older, he recognizes the need to conform to a heteronormative ideal of black masculinity in order to avoid abuse and homophobia. As an adult, Chiron chooses to embrace the stereotypical black male gender performance by becoming muscular and a drug dealer.(File:Crossroads of the World.jpg|thumb|left|Crossroads of the World)According to Korean American actor Daniel Dae Kim, Asian and Asian American men "have been portrayed as inscrutable villains and asexualized kind of eunuchs."NEWS, Hollywood's Stereotypes,weblink ABC News, The Media Action Network for Asian Americans accused the director and studio of Aloha of whitewashing the cast of the film, and the director, Cameron Crowe, apologized about Emma Stone being miscast as a character who is meant to be of one quarter Chinese and one quarter Hawaiian descent.WEB, June 2, 2015, Variety Staff,weblink Cameron Crowe on Casting Emma Stone: 'I Offer You a Heart-Felt Apology', Variety, 2015-06-03, WEB, May 23, 2015, Ryan, Gajewski, Cameron Crowe's 'Deep Tiki' Criticized for Depicting "Whitewashed" Hawaii,weblink The Hollywood Reporter, May 29, 2015, JOURNAL, May 27, 2015, Dave, McNary,weblink Sony Defends 'Deep Tiki' After White-Washing Criticism, Variety, December 19, 2018, Throughout the 20th century, acting roles in film were relatively few, and many available roles were narrow characters. In the 21st century, young Asian American comedians and filmmakers have found an outlet on YouTube allowing them to gain a strong and loyal fanbase among their fellow Asian Americans.NEWS, YouTube Spawns Asian-American Celebrities, Elizabeth, Lee,weblink VAO News, February 28, 2013, March 4, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130218124215weblink">weblink February 18, 2013, mdy, Although more recently the film Crazy Rich Asians has been lauded in the United States for featuring a predominantly Asian cast,NEWS,weblink 'Crazy Rich Asians' dominates the box office, makes history for representation, Kelley, Sonaiya, August 19, 2018, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180906071908weblink">weblink September 6, 2018, live, mdy-all, it was criticized elsewhere for casting biracial and non-Chinese actors as ethnically Chinese characters. The film Always Be My Maybe was lauded for taking familiar rom-com beats and cleverly layering in smart social commentary.WEB,weblink Always be My Maybe (2019), Rotten Tomatoes, November 11, 2020, Before the September 11 attacks, Arabs and Arab Americans were often portrayed as terrorists. The decision to hire Naomi Scott, in the film Aladdin, the daughter of an English father and a Gujarati Ugandan-Indian mother, to play the lead of Jasmine, also drew criticism, as well as accusations of colorism, as some commentators expected the role to go to an actress of Arab or Middle Eastern origin.WEB,weblink Was Disney Wrong To Cast Naomi Scott As Jasmine in the New 'Aladdin' Film? Here's Why People Are Angry, July 17, 2017, September 7, 2017,weblink September 7, 2017, live, In January 2018, it was reported that white extras were being applied brown make-up during filming in order to "blend in", which caused an outcry and condemnation among fans and critics, branding the practice as "an insult to the whole industry" while accusing the producers of not recruiting people with Middle Eastern or North African heritage. Disney responded to the controversy saying, "Diversity of our cast and background performers was a requirement and only in a handful of instances when it was a matter of specialty skills, safety and control (special effects rigs, stunt performers and handling of animals) were crew made up to blend in."WEB,weblink Aladdin: Disney defends 'making up' white actors to 'blend in' during crowd scenes, January 7, 2018, BBC News, January 12, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180111225805weblink">weblink January 11, 2018, live, WEB, Disney accused of 'browning up' white actors for various Asian roles in Aladdin,weblink The Independent, January 14, 2018, January 7, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180114183739weblink">weblink January 14, 2018, live,Working conditions
{{see also|List of Hollywood strikes}}File:Kill_Bill_the_Whole_Bloody_Affair_screening_at_the_New_Beverly.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The New Beverly CinemaNew Beverly CinemaHollywood's work flow is unique in that much of its work force does not report to the same factory each day, nor follow the same routine from day to day, but films at distant locations around the world, with a schedule dictated by the scenes being filmed rather than what makes the most sense for productivity. For instance, an urban film shot entirely on location at night would require the bulk of its crews to work a graveyard shift, while a situational comedy series that shoots primarily on stage with only one or two days a week on location would follow a more traditional work schedule. Westerns are often shot in desert locations far from the homes of the crew in areas with limited hotels that necessitate long drives before and after a shooting day, which take advantage of as many hours of sunlight available, ultimately requiring workers to put in 16 or 17 hours a day from the time they leave their home to the time they return.NEWS, Polone, Gavin, The Unglamorous, Punishing Hours of Working on a Hollywood Set,weblink 20 March 2022, New York Magazine, 23 May 2012, NEWS, Vlessing, Etan, Global Unions Call to End "Long Hours Culture" for Film, TV Workers,weblink 20 March 2022, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 December 2021, While the role of labor in America has waned in many parts of the country, the unions have maintained a firm grip in Hollywood since their start during Great Depression when workers would line up outside the thriving movie studios looking for the only job in town. Terrible conditions awaited those workers as the studios exploited the eager workforce with meager pay and the ever present threat of the hundreds of others waiting just outside the gates to take their place if they voiced any complaints.BOOK, Horne, Gerald, Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950, 2001, University of Texas Press, 978-0-292-73138-7,weblink March 20, 2022, August 12, 2022,weblink dead, Due to the casual nature of employment in Hollywood, it is only through collective bargaining can individual workers express their rights to minimum wage guarantees and access to pension and health plans that carry over from film to film or TV series to TV series, and offer the studios access to a trained workforce able to step onto a set on day one with the knowledge and experience to handle the highly technical equipment they are asked to operate.NEWS, Kelly, Kim, Hollywood's Labor Force Has Always Had to Fight for Workers' Rights,weblink Teen Vogue, 23 April 2019, The majority of the workers in Hollywood are represented by several unions and guilds. The 150,000 member-strong International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) represents most of the crafts, such as the grips, electricians, and camera people, as well as editors, sound engineers, and hair & make-up artists. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is the next largest group representing some 130,000 actors and performers, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) represents the directors and production managers, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) representing writers, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) represents the drivers.NEWS, David, Robb, SAG-AFTRA Collects $1 Billion In Member Dues & Non-Member Fees In Its First 10 Years As Membership Climbs To Record Highs,weblink Deadline Hollywood, 2022-08-03, NEWS, Beatrice, Verhoeven, DGA, SAG-AFTRA, WGA East Stand With IATSE in Negotiations With AMPTP,weblink TheWrap, 2021-09-24, The unions and guilds serve as the collective bargaining unit for their membership, negotiating on regular intervals (most currently on 3 year contracts) with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade alliance representing the film studios and television networks that hire the crews to create their content.While the relationship between labor and management has generally been amicable over the years, working together with the state to develop safe protocols to continue working during COVID-19 and lobbying together in favor of tax incentives, contract negotiations have been known to get contentious over changes in the industry and as a response to rising income inequality. The relationship even turned bloody in 1945 as a six-month strike by set decorators turned into a bloody melee on a sweltering October day between strikers, scabs, strikebreakers, and studio security.NEWS, Robb, David, How Unions Saved Hollywood During The Pandemic,weblink Deadline Hollywood, 30 December 2021, NEWS, Ellingson, Annlee, IATSE launches letter-writing campaign for California film and TV tax credits,weblink LA Business Journal, 18 June 2014, NEWS, Faughnder, Ryan, Hollywood avoided an IATSE strike. But broader labor issues aren't going away,weblink 19 October 2021, NEWS, Meares, Hadley, How The Bloody Hollywood Strike Of 1945 Forever Changed The Film Business,weblink LAist, 23 November 2021,See also
- (:Category:Documentary films about Hollywood, Los Angeles)
- (:Category:Documentary films about the cinema of the United States)
- (:Category:Films about Hollywood, Los Angeles)
- Lists of American films
- American comedy films
- American Film Institute
- History of animation in the United States
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
- Motion Picture Association of America film rating system
- National Film Registry
- General
References
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Further reading
- Hallett, Hilary A. Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013.
- BOOK, May, Lary, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry, 1983, University of Chicago Press, 9780226511733,
- Ragan, David. Who's Who in Hollywood, 1900–1976. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976.
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