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  Hollywood and Society; enclyclo art [encl] - Title
She claimed that 1940s Hollywood films provided a collective dream portrait of its era and proposed deciphering "the dream that all of us have been buying at the box office, to cut through to the real nature of the identification we have experienced there" (1969: 5-6).
Since the main Hollywood studios repeatedly reproduced the types of film that they thought were the most popular, Hollywood cinema became primarily a genre cinema in which popular formulas are repeated in cycles of genres that in turn deal with central societal conflicts, problems, and concerns of its audiences.
Hollywood films are the most capital intensive and thus have the most spectacular special effects; they are effectively marketed throughout the world and are popular everywhere.
www.gseis.ucla.edu /courses/ed253a/MCkellner/HOLSOC.html   (5538 words)

  
 The idea of "classic Hollywood narration" derives from The Classical Hollywood Cinema (1985), by David Bordwell, Janet ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The idea of "classic Hollywood narration" derives from The Classical Hollywood Cinema (1985), by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson.
"Classic Hollywood narration focuses on an individual or small group of individuals who early on encounter discrete and specific goals that are either clearly attained or clearly unattained by the film's end.
Departures from such conventions within contemporary Hollywood cinema are usually seen as especially realistic and 'confronting,'.
www.umsl.edu /divisions/artscience/english/faculty/grady/classhollnarr.htm   (144 words)

  
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Classic, because the form has been "lengthy, stable, and influential," and Hollywood, because the form was shaped predominately in American studio films.
Classic cinema tends towards unrestricted narration, allowing the audience access to information that the characters may not know.
In Classic Cinema, the POV shot is generally used to force our attention to specific details.
www.freewebs.com /jargon/articles/creecy/creecy1.html   (1937 words)

  
 Classical Hollywood Cinema
During Hollywood's classical period, a particular type of storytelling was favored.
Hollywood films, as opposed to art films or some types of foreign films, embrace a narrative that is highly economic and that is determined by cause and effect.
This kind of lighting also softens and idealizes characters, and stars throughout the classical period often preferred certain ways of being lit to maximize their beauty.
www.fathom.com /course/10701053/session4.html   (908 words)

  
 A-Z Index - Search the web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Cinema History - Chronicles the history of motion pictures and films from the silent era to the end of the 20th century.
Classic Movies History Articles - A collection of articles from Classic Movies.org focused on historical events, such as the Hollywood Blacklist and the opening of the movies to African-American actors.
Museu del Cinema - One of the few museums where you can journey through the 500 years of the history of images, seeing what were the predecessors and the origins of the cinema.
www.a-zindex.com /cgi-bin/index.cgi?dir=/Arts/Movies/History   (1004 words)

  
 Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Cinema in particular, and art in general, is thus introduced as the third space that allows the formation of the nation, bypassing religion and colonialism.
The laws that these scholars uncovered at work in the classical Hollywood score were all too uniform in their effect upon the public.
Hollywood Spectatorship is an important contribution to the study of Hollywood film and to the promotion of the increasingly important historical materialist strand of reception studies.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/bookrev/books-may-03.htm   (19906 words)

  
 hollywood cinema Free Essays
Hollywood movie money makers Every summer moviegoers flock to the theaters to see what Hollywood has punched out as their big summer hits.
Write a critique of a recent film which, in your view, conforms to the structural parameters of the classic Hollywood model of narrative construction.
Shocking cinema is the term used to describe films that are usually classed as horror.
www.mytermpapers.com /search/67269.html   (794 words)

  
 AHCCA Cinema Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This subject is a study of the institutional and cultural aspects of national cinemas through a case study of Italian cinema and cinemas of the Italian diaspora in Australia since the second World War.
Prerequisites: 37.5 points of cinema studies for third year, or admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in cinema studies for fourth year, see Honours entry.
Students should develop a knowledge of the history of the cinema and its origins in new visual forms of modernity, such as photography and 19th century visual devices, such as the diorama, zoetrope and viviscope.
www.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au /2004subjects/cinema/full-details.html   (3531 words)

  
 Genders OnLine Journal - Hollywood Lesbians: Annamarie Jagose interviews Patricia White about Her Latest Book, ...
Classical Hollywood cinema is relentlessly heteronormative; homosexuality as a "structuring absence" is manifested in the ghost.
Hollywood cinema is a very codified world, narratively and visually.
But I actually think that classical Hollywood is so resolutely apolitical and individualistic in how it deals with social and ideological contradictions, that it often has no other way of signifying difference than sexualizing it.
www.genders.org /g32/g32_jagose.html   (5122 words)

  
 The Implicated Spectator
She states, "The notion of cinema as an institution is central both to spectatorship as defined in 1970s film theory and to more recent reformulations." Mayne suggests that cinema is an institution which simultaneously acts upon the viewer and is shaped by the viewer.
Mulvey's analysis of the classical Hollywood cinema assumes that the masculine film viewer is aligned in fairly unproblematic terms with the 'ego ideal' represented by the male protagonist, but in the case of The Picture of Dorian Gray, no such alignment exists.
Mulvey, in her article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," also sets up a series of opposing components of the psychoanalytic framework such as recognition/misrecognition, activity/passivity, and subject/object to consider women's position in the cinema, both as spectator and as traditional object of men's visual pleasure.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/implicated.html   (5337 words)

  
 Short Cuts, Narrative Film and Hypertext
A brief detour: by "classic Hollywood style," I refer to a more "traditional" narrative where one character, or maybe a few, are privileged with the most screen time.
Kolker, in discussing the movement from "center to periphery," is placing Altman in a dialectic with Hollywood cinema and narrative.
With its refusal to partake in classic Hollywood narrative, and his insistence in giving so much choice to the audience in making connections in Short Cuts, Altman has in fact made a hypertext: a rich body of links, a network of meaning that comments on narrative form by simply offering an alternative to narrative form.
www.mindspring.com /~dbalcom/short_cuts.html   (4038 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Hollywood Cinema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Taking a broad-ranging approach, and spotlighting such films as A Star is Born, Singin’ in the Rain, Forrest Gump, and Titanic, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice.
Taking a wide-ranging approach, and spotlighting such films as A Star is Born, Singing in the Rain, Forrest Gump, and Titanic, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice.
While justifying Hollywood cinema as an art form every bit worthy of study and analysis, Maltby never looses sight of what cinema (particularly Hollywood cinema) is meant to be: entertainment.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0631216154   (752 words)

  
 Aatrax - Category Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A collection of articles from Classic Movies.org focused on historical events, such as the Hollywood Blacklist and the opening of the movies to AfricanAmerican actors.
Dedicated to the actors and actresses from Hollywood's "Golden Era" of film during the early part of the 20th century.
One of the few museums where you can journey through the 500 years of the history of images, seeing what were the predecessors and the origins of the cinema.
www.aatrax.com /cgi-bin/odp/index.cgi?/Arts/Movies/History   (840 words)

  
 Classic movie connections
Launched in 1994 Classic Arts Showcase is a free cable television program designed to bring the classic arts experience to the largest audience possible by providing video clips of the arts in hopes of tempting the viewer to go out and feast from the buffet of arts available in their community.
You might say Disneyland is now a classic and the Magic Continues with the “Homecoming On Earth" as the park in Anaheim, California celebrates it’s 50th anniversary with Mickey and Minnie Mouse and a party that has been two and a half years in the making and will be an 18-month long celebration.
Early Hollywood films were best at bringing vivid, alarming images to the screen and creating characters that could invade our lives when we least expected it – even in the form of a bat.
classicfilm.miningco.com /od/classicmovieconnections   (3062 words)

  
 Using Non-Fiction Films in a Criminal Law Course
The classical Hollywood film presents psychologically defined individuals who struggle to solve a clear-cut problem or to attain specific goals.
A third and final Hollywood stock character that has proven capable of accommodating the law professor is the personally and morally flawed individual who is sympathetic, bordering on pathetic.
Critically contemplating the self-images of law professors in the Hollywood cinema can assist law professors, lawyers, and members of other professions as well in consciously tending to their professional self-imagery.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/vermont/papke28.html   (6421 words)

  
 German 43: Resources: Biographies: Dietrich, Marlene
von Sternberg, 1930) she left for Hollywood and later resisted Joseph Goebbels' many offers to join the film industry of the Third Reich.
In the United States she rose to international stardom but she also experienced the callousness of the Hollywood studio system; when her films ceased to attract audiences she was labeled "box office poison" in 1937.
A US citizen as of 1939, she actively supported the war effort by performing for US troops stationed abroad and was awarded the "Medal of Freedom" in 1947, the first woman to receive this distinction.
www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/dietrich-m.html   (200 words)

  
 Classic Cinemas - classiccinemas.com
The Meadowview theatre was acquired by Classic Cinemas in December of 1990.
Classic Cinemas also added a party room to the Meadowview theatre.
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
www.classiccinemas.com   (1123 words)

  
 Reel Classics: Elizabeth's Classic Movie Homepage
Individual pages on a number of classic Movies and Musicals as well as some favorite film Series.
Lots of classic movie-related articles, both new and vintage, covering subjects ranging from specific films to the classic Hollywood era.
A little background on Elizabeth, the author of Reel Classics, including where she came from and how she got involved in all this.
www.reelclassics.com   (420 words)

  
 A critical analysis of how Vladimir Propp’s The Morphology of the Folk Talecan be applied to mainstream Hollywood ...
It appears that The Princess Bride (as both film and book) does follow Propp's structure quite closely, and that any omissions of character roles or the respective narrative functions are in fact side effects of the conversion of the fairytale from oral origins to both literary and film formats.
Jaws can be classified as a good example of a Hollywood 'blockbuster' in terms of the films' marketing and financing.
This clearly shows that Jaws is a popular film, and so presents itself as a good subject for analysis as a 'classic' Hollywood blockbuster.
www.coursework.info /i/12663.html   (988 words)

  
 Classic Cinemas - classiccinemas.com
At Classic Cinemas, we've made movie going fun and affordable for more than 25 years.
These gift cards are used like cash and are good for movies, munchies and more at all Classic Cinemas theatres.
Classic Cinemas Gift Dollars and Reel Money® gift cards are always accepted.
www.classiccinema.com   (1123 words)

  
 Classic Movies - Everything For the Classic Film Fan
Classic Movies Feature Articles - Humor, interviews, special tributes, quizzes, and more, all on the subject of classic Hollywood films.
Classic Movies Sound Files - A large and growing collection of sound files in wav format from classic and not-so-classic films.
Classic Movies focuses on films from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.
www.classicmovies.org   (967 words)

  
 GEORGE HURRELL - Classic Hollywood Glamour Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In 1929 at the age of 25 artist turned photographer, George Hurrell, irreparably changed the way cinema studios and the movie going public perceived many of the greatest stars of the '30s and '40s.
His highly stylized, sensual studio portraits of the great and soon to be great stars became the epitome of Hollywood glamour and mystery for a Depression weary movie going public.
Hurrell’s exhaustive retouching of negatives to eliminate unwanted facial and body blemishes and to enhance the subjects finest qualities continues to be a source of controversy among movie and art critics.
www.lafterhall.com /hurrell.html   (547 words)

  
 Spielberg vs. Fassbinder and Godard
The classic Hollywood Cinema has always held a fascination for filmmakers around the world.
However, since the emergence of this dominant film style, there have been attempts to subvert it, from within and from without Hollywood.
In this course, we will examine such questions as the appeal of Hollywood film-style, how Hollywood cinema is constructed and how it functions, it’s ideology, and the problematics of its subversion.
people.uncw.edu /specko/Spielberg.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Canyon Cinema, Inc.
Works spanning Sonbert's entire career are now available for rental through Canyon Cinema, beginning with AMPHETAMINE (1966), made when he was still a teenager at New York University film school, through WHIPLASH (1995/1997), completed posthumously according to the filmmaker's specific instructions.
The film stylistically exemplifies the artist's masterful use of a constantly moving hand-held camera as it trails the college-age protagonists in choreographed fashion, and of chiaroscuro lighting effects in interior scenes.
The incorporation of the materiality of film, the treatment of light, and the use of a hand-held camera, all suggest the influence of Stan Brakhage (Sonbert's 'hero').
www.canyoncinema.com /S/Sonbert.html   (2226 words)

  
 Classic Hollywood Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A braggart who had long aspired heroism but seemed least likely of men ever achieve it, he was arrogant overbearing, and he wore skirt.
Classic course, timeless story, so why not remake it with At one point notes that along "paradise" Lualaba River, men Spicer's expedition fired their rifles at some animals bank "Again Conrad's words come to mind: 'In empty immensity earth, sky, and water.
As result powerful magic or juju manifested in his naval triumphs, Spicer found himself object worship among local tribesmen who made perfect effigies of him, binoculars, skirt and all.
www.cultclassicmovies.net /Movie-Channels/classic-hollywood-movie.html   (433 words)

  
 Classical Hollywood Cinema
Audiences identified with the desire to have a dangerous-but-secure lifestyle, and were captivated by the central conflict between civilization and savagery.
The gangster picture became an excellent format to display cinema's sound capacities: ballistic machine gun fire, screeching tires and sharp streets electrified the screen.
In this way, classical musical films often gave the impression of an amateur's inspired and immediate performance--a type of sudden liberation and celebration that many claim makes for the most escapist-yet-intoxicating of the classical Hollywood genres.
www.fathom.com /course/10701053/session3.html   (1868 words)

  
 Cinema of the United States - Articles and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Cinema of the United States - Articles and Information
Significant people during the earliest era of film history (1872-1903)
Significant people during the beginnings of Hollywood (1912-1925)
www.breakpt.org /article/Cinema_of_the_United_States   (77 words)

  
 Viva Zapata! Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Top-notch acting and flawless direction make this a sure-fire bet for Marlon Brando buffs and lovers of classic Hollywood cinema.
Angry that her behavior may have cost him his wife's inheritance, he sets out to destroy the happiness she seeks and the dignity she still retains.
Copyright © 1998-2005 Hollywood Management Company, All Rights Reserved.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=2017   (129 words)

  
 The Athens NEWS: Twice weekly alternative
Now, I could lay a whole film-school trip on you about how the popularity of fantasy films rises in step with political conservatism, but frankly I don't think the general movie-going public gives a rat's ass about that kind of stuff.
Movies like "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" are romances in the classic literary sense: stories of adventure and chivalry in which good triumphs over evil.
They're as full of crap as the classic Hollywood narrative cinema you despise.
www.athensnews.com /issue/article.php3?story_id=20751   (614 words)

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