American Cinema Part 2

American Blockbusters have shaped cinema and brought new techniques to the craft. The USA is also the most sucessful financelly  mkaing billions of dollars per annum. Cinematic landmarks and Box Office legends like Gone With the Wind (1939), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009), The Lord of the Ring Trilogy (2001, 2002 & 2003) and The Star Wars Saga (1977-present).

To outline the Eras of Hollywood I mentioned earlier. The Silent Era (1900s-1929) was the first form of Cinema, originally invented by the French Lumiére Brothers in 1894. They invented film but it wasn't until the 1900s that film became an Industry and people started going to the Cinema regularly. The first great American Director was probably D. W. Griffith (1875-1948). He made the 2 giants of the Silent Era, those being The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intola


 rence (1916). The Golden Age of Hollywood (1920s-1960s) also known as Classical Hollywood, was when Talking and Colour came into Film. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first film to have dialogue and singing. The Jazz Singer was a huge sucess and it was clear that "talkies" (as they became known) were the way forward. By the 1930s they had perfected Technicolour. The 1930s also saw some of the timeless classics of American Cinema like The Wizard of Oz (1939), Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and of course Gone With the Wind (1939) which became the highest grossing film in history, up to 1939 that is. The Golden Age also produced some of the greatest Historical Epics ever put to screen like The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1964) and many many more. The next era was New Hollywood (1950s-1980s). New Hollywood was when enormous sets, tragic romances and squeaky-clean content gave way to more realistic, violent, gritty, imaginative and smaller scale films. New Hollywood also produced some of the most acclaimed and iconic films ever made like Star Wars (1977), The Godfather (1972), The Graduate (1967), Rebel Without A Cause (1955), Taxi Driver (1978), The Terminator (1984) and so many more that I won't list here. The final era I'm gonna mention is The Digital Era (1990s-Present) or now. Modern Cinema was when digital and CGI effects became common place and nearly every strange things Directors and Writers could imagine became a reality. Films like Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1994), X-Men (2000), Harry Potter (2001), The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002 & 2003), I, Robot (2004), Avatar (2009), Life of Pi (2012) and Gravity (2013) pushed the boundaries of what you could do in a film and what strange and fantasy/sci-fi worlds you can bring to life through a screen.

American Cinema Part 1

America has produced more films then any other country and are still the most powerful and dominent cinema in the world. Hollywood has produced some the greatest and most legendary Directors, Actors and Producers that are all icons and famous for their achicvements (or lifestyle). Many of these legends are remembered on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame that is comprised of more than 2500 stars embedded in the pathway. America has produced some of the most iconic and influential directors ever, including names like; Steven Spielberg, Cecil B. DeMille, Stanley Kubrick, D. W. Griffith, Quentin Tarantino, Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese and many, many more. America has shaped cinema and definened Genres asdn Style for decades ad continues to do so. From Blockbusters to Indie B-Movies America is the cinema giant of the world and is constantly re-inventing itself from Silent Films (1900s-1920s) to "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (1930s-1960s) to The New Age of American Cinema (1970s-1990s) all the way to The Digital Age of today.



The Film Industry has existed since the late 1800s. And in that time we have made unbelieveable advances in technology and the methods we use to tell stories through film. Film has progressed from a Sideshow Trick to the Artform of the 20th Century. Everyone has a favourite film, but people forget that Films are a much broader and further-reaching industry, than just the latest Hollywood Blockbuster. European & Asian Cinema is regarded as the best in the world. Countiries like France, China, Sweden, Japan, Italy, India and Germany. New cinema has begun to occur in places like Africa, South America, The Middle-East and smaller Asian countries like Indonesia, The Philipines and Thailand.

So to start off with; American Cinema. The most popular, most valueable and most prolific cinema on Earth. the American Cinema we now know really only started in 1912 when most major film companies were set up in Southern California and in particular a district in Los Angeles known as Hollywood.

The World Famous "Hollywood Sign" on Mount Lee in the Hollywood Hills.

Introduction to Blog

Hi this is my first blog so please excuse the mistakes, and its on Films and the Film Industry in different countries all across the globe. From Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond. Oh, and thanks for reading.