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origin
Record second photo capture and reproduce the movement is recorded as a group gallop photos shot by Ed Ward Muybridge (Eadweard Muybridge) in Palo Alto, California. Shooting, he will be a set of still cameras placed in a row. His achievements prompted inventors everywhere began to try to produce a similar function device to capture such movement. One of the people in the United States, Thomas Alva Edison was the first to begin the production of such devices, he made the Kinetoscope, but becau -
The rise of Hollywood
In early 1910, the American film projectors and biography (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company) camp director David Griffith (DW Griffith) to the West Coast with his team of actors to shoot movies, actors, including Balan Che · Swazilandspecial (Blanche Sweet), Lillian Gish (Lillian Gish), Mary Bike Crawford, Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Barrymore). Near Georgia Street in downtown Los Angeles, an empty location to start the shooting. At that time, the company has decided to develop new areas. -
The Golden Age of Hollywood
The so-called Hollywood's "Golden Age" refers to the late 1920s, the end of the silent film era, this time to the late 1950s. Thousands of films produced during this period. The start flag is "The Jazz Singer" was produced in 1927, the use of sound is not only the end of the silent film era, also increased box office revenue. Of Westerns, farce, musicals, cartoons or biopic, most Hollywood films, almost all follow a pattern - each film company produced the film producer has its own specific team -
The decline of the studio system.
Latter part of the studio system and Hollywood "golden age" began to decline in 1940, the main reason is that:
"Little Three" (Universal Studios, American artist and Columbia Pictures) does not have its own theater, has refused to share agreed to referee the book [6] [7]. Many independent filmmakers to compromise and the system to operate independently of the formation of a well-known filmmaker, sued Paramount monopoly Detroit theater are not satisfied - because Paramount by controlling actors l -
film noir
film noir, Hollywood detective film, with particular emphasis on the theme of good and evil are not clearly demarcated morality from sexual motives. Hollywood's classic film noir period is widely considered to be from the late 1940s to the 1950s. Noir with repressed black and white visual style of this period, from the German Expressionist film, many typical episode, as well as the general view of the classic film noir crime novels from the United States during the Great Depression. " -
New Hollywood and post-classic movie
New Hollywood is the term used to describe the rise of a new generation of film academy training director. They have mastered the techniques developed in Europe in the sixties. The 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" marks the start of the American Film revive, also means a new generation of film thereafter at the box office can be successful.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, William Fred Kim, Steven Spielberg began shooting to pay tribute to the history o -
Today, Hollywood
Operational characteristics Hollywood movies often have studios (film distributors) signed a contract with the producer cooperation, respectively, so that the film-makers responsible for selling the path, making people focus on the movie itself, large-scale production of films produced globally marketed. -
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[Edit] Narrative Aesthetics
Lay out in the Hollywood movie plot, few cultural or language barriers, the theme of many high-concept movie intercultural communication, this works because the theme in line with the mainstream market, the world is easy to sell. Now Hollywood has also become synonymous in many places of the world movie [8]. Although such a good movie at the box office, cross-cultural, but also a cultural the reviewers critical if only use high-concept movie, movie narrative style i -
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[Edit] industrial scale American culture because the film industry has created many jobs and huge business opportunities. According to the American Film Institute report pointed out that the total employment in 2011, the U.S. film industry has created more than 220 million, of which about 700,000 direct film industry professionals, another 1.5 million indirect employment to support the work of film production staff [10]
