Research in progress, March 13, 2022
Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema, Politics and Society
Hollywood Now!
Everything’s Content
Hollywood in the Age of Streaming
Hollywood in the New Millennium
Table of Contents:
- Organizational Structure
- Technology: F/X; IMAX
- Netflix Revolution
- Infantilization
- No Distinction between Film and TV
- End of Movie Stardom
- No More Heroes
- No More Genres
- Indie Cinema (Sundance Festival)
- MeToo; TimeUp
- The Oscars (OscarsSoWhite)
- Black Lives Matter (BLM)
- Impact of COVID-19
- Socially Relevant Movies
- Foreign Language Film
Table of Contents:
Hollywood Historiography
Organizational Structure
Industry: Economics, Globalization
Independent Cinema
Technology
Paradigms and Genres
Post-Classic Texts
Blockbusters, Specials, Remakes (Event Movies, Tentpoles)
Aesthetics
Politics, Morality, Ideology
Directors and Directions
Critics and Reviewers
Audiences: Addressing Viewers in the Internet Era–Marketing, Publicity, Social Media
Michael Wood, America in the Movies:
Function of Movies (also Ideology)
“It seems that entertainment is not, as we often think, a full-scale flight from our problems, not a means of forgetting them completely, but rather a rearrangement of our problems into shapes which tame them, which disperse them to the margins of our attentions.”
Hollywood as Business
Supreme Court determined in 1915:
“The exhibition of motion pictures is a business pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit.”
Will Hays:
“Entertainment is the commodity for which the public pays at the box-office. Propaganda disguised as entertainment would be neither honest salesmanship, nor honest showmanship.”
(Quoted in Naremore, p. 96)
Dreams of luxury and glamor
Hollywood in the 1950s sold consumerist dreams to its main consumers: teens and women.