Production Trends
The following analysis classifies the class-A feature films of the major Hollywood studios into six broad production trends: (1) prestige pictures; (2) musicals; (3) the woman's film...
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Scene Dissection, Spectacle, Film as Art
The making and showing of moving pictures seems to constitute what I have
taken the liberty of terming the "New Art."
Louis Reeves Harrison, Moving Picture Wo...
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Television and Hollywood
in the 1940s
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON
Television from the rest of the country. Heralded by stories of scientific breakthroughs and by occasional demonstrations of the technology, ...
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The Brave New Ancillary World
The mergers and acquisitions traced in the previous chapter had as their rationale the integration of multiple markets for generating film revenue. Before the 1980s, thes...
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The American Film Industry
in the Early 1950s
Industry-Wide Problems
The Hollywood film industry of 1950 was threatened on several different fronts. Television broadcasting was rapidly becoming the do...
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The Hollywood Studio
System, 1946 1949
In the movie industry's roller-coaster postwar ride from the unprecedented heights of 1946 to the panic of 1949, the Hollywood studio powers underwent enormous c...
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The Hollywood Studio System in 1940-1941
By 1940, the major motion picture companies had refined a production system acutely attuned to market conditions and to the industry's vertically integrated st...
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Formative Industry Trends, 1970-1979
Because the industry is peopled with cretins, scoundrels, and bigots..
(toes not mean that it may not have worked, once upon a time.
DAVID ROBINSON, CRITIC/JOURNA...
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The Film Industry Achieves:Modest Stability 1898-1901
Biograph at Its Zenith
In the years immediately following the Spanish-American War, the motion-picture industry gained a modicum of stability as e...
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Production Trends
Formative Industry Trends, 1970-1979