Knowra Hollywood cinema Hollywood cinema Hollywood cinema is the commercially dominant filmmaking tradition built around the major American studios and their successors. It is associated with large-scale production, genre storytelling, and wide theatrical distribution.
Classical Hollywood cinema : A filmmaking style emphasizing clear causality, goal-driven characters, continuity editing, and resolved narratives. Its conventions became the dominant storytelling grammar of studio-era Hollywood.
Nickelodeon : An early twentieth-century theater that screened short films, usually for a five-cent admission. Nickelodeons created a mass market that supported the expanding American film industry.
Louis B. Mayer : An American film executive who led Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during much of its studio-system heyday. His management helped establish MGM's star-centered production and publicity model.
American independent cinema : Film production and distribution in the United States conducted outside, or at the margins of, major studios. Its financing and creative control often differ from Hollywood's studio-centered model.
Motion Picture Production Code : A set of content restrictions enforced by major American studios from the mid-1930s until the late 1960s. It constrained what Hollywood films could depict and how stories could resolve.
Studio system : An industrial arrangement in which major film companies controlled production, talent, and distribution. Vertical integration let Hollywood studios coordinate films from development through release.
Thomas Edison : An American inventor and industrialist whose companies controlled influential early motion-picture technologies and patents. Patent conflicts involving Edison's interests helped push independent filmmakers toward California.
Irving Thalberg : An American film producer and studio executive known for supervising productions at Universal and MGM. His production methods helped define the role of the studio-era producer.
French New Wave : A late-1950s and 1960s French film movement marked by location shooting, formal experimentation, and auteur direction. Its visible stylistic breaks challenged Hollywood's continuity-based storytelling.
Paramount decree : A 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that required major film studios to end theater ownership and certain distribution practices. It dismantled key parts of Hollywood's vertically integrated studio system.
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