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Account for the rise and decline of the Hollywood studio system
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Account for the rise and decline of the Hollywood studio system Essentially the function of the Hollywood production companies always has been to create what Truffaunt1 termed sociological events. In their continual efforts to reach as massive an audience as possible, early film makers investigated areas of potential audience appeal and, at the same time standardized those areas whose appeal already had been verified by audience response. In the gradual development of the business of movie production, experimentation steadily gave way to standardization as a matter of fundamental economics. Between 1915 and 1930 the studio had standardized and hence economized virtually every aspect of film production. Due to this regime the classic studio era of Hollywood is referred to as factory production; as the studios aim was to mass manufacture and distribute movies. This method of running the film making business was however dismantled in 1948 after a 10 year...
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