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; (4) comedy; (5) social problem films; and (6)...

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, these were mainly theaters and broadcast television. By...

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 structure. This system was the essential feature of...

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 dominant entertainment medium in the United States. The...

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By Stanley Corkin. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996. 240 pp. $40.00 cloth. In Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States, Stanley Corkin undertakes an ambitious interdisciplinary project in which he demonstrates how works of the imagination that claim "realism"...

The revival of the cinema-going habit in Britain continues to gather momentum. Despite a minor blip in 1995, audience figures have been on a steady upward curve since their 1984 record low of 54 million and all indicators suggest...