America's film-making industry

关于America's film-making industry的思维导图， Film-making cannot be separated from economy and high technology.

America’s film-making industry

• the opportune moment
  • the "golden period of silent films"(1921–1931)
  • far away from the battle field in the First World War
    • economy grew rapidly during and after the war
  • successful stars, directors, and cameramen began to be lured to Hollywood
    • Innovations in technique, content and structural forms, which were from Germany, France, and Russia, were being introduced in films.
  • Movies were attaining new heights in expression.
• commercialized development
  • Americans flocked to the movies for their mass entertainment
    • the rise of the great studios
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Inc (1923)
        • Inc n.股份有限公司;（有限）公司，包括
      • Warner Bros. Pictures Company (1923)
      • Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914)
      • 20th Century-Fox Corporation (1912)
      • 概要
  • Hollywood's film-making culminated for the first time during the 1930s and the 1940s
    • many distinguished films, the classics in the history of world movies
      • Citizen Kane, The Great Dictator, Waterloo Bridge, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Casablanca
• owed a lot to Hollywood's strategy of monopoly, star system, and film patterning
  • Monopoly
    • meaning
      • the vertical control of the large film-making companies on the set -up of their own cinema lines, which solely released and projected productions of their own
    • producers became the ultimate decision-makers
      • judged the success or failure of film by its box office value
    • fundamentally monopolized releasing and projection rights of the independent and minor film-making companies
    • American movies were promoted to commercialization and industrialization.
  • Star system
    • reason
      • The producers discovered the great value of movie stars
    • operational process
      • sent talent scouts to find stars
        • built them up by any means
          • the audiences became fanatic movie fans of stars
            • stars brought great profits to themselves as well as the producers
    • Hollywood's sky shone with uncountable stars, whose brightness conquered the world
  • Film patterning
    • a typically commercialized production
    • characteristic
      • formulated plots, patterned heroes and heroines, and illustrated visual images
      • easily accepted by the audience and brought high box office value
    • American movies'
      • Western, comedy, horror, and crime movies
• Film-making cannot be separated from economy and high technology.