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Definition: Hollywood from Philip's Encyclopedia

Suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA. After 1911 it became the primary centre for film-making in the USA, and by the 1930s its studios dominated world cinema. From the 1950s onwards, television became increasingly important.


Hollywood

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
When most people around the world think of Hollywood, they think of the famous Hollywood sign on Mount Lee in Griffith Park. But Hollywood is more than a geographical place, more than the various studio lots, the Walk of Fame, the guided tours to houses of the stars. Hollywood is a cultural construct, an American export of dreams and democratic ideals. Hollywood is the second cinema, the other cinema in most countries around the world. When applied as an adjective, the term Hollywood cinema is synonymous with mainstream, dominant, narrative cinema. It implies a global system of distribution and marketing of feature films (ninety minutes or more), which excludes shorts, documentaries, animation, and independent films, although some independent productions, such as Sundance films (formerly an independent bastion), look more and more like Hollywood films. Put simply, such films are usually big-budget productions with known stars and special effects, high production values and a…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The famous Hollywood sign sits in the hills above...
Hollywood, a district in Los Angeles, California, is the center of the American film industry. The word is often used to refer to the industry itself. During the early twentieth century, film producers began moving from the East Coast to California to take advantage of cheap land, cheap labor, and…
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From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California....
When most people around the world think of Hollywood, they think of the famous Hollywood sign on Mount Lee in Griffith Park. But Hollywood is more than a geographical place, more than the various studio lots, the Walk of Fame, the guided tours to houses of the stars. Hollywood is a cultural…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. BURCHILL, Julie Girls on Film (1986). I’d move to Los Angeles if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed up by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in…
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From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
Centre of the US film industry, located in California, providing maximum sunshine for outdoor shooting and some magnificent scenery. In 1908 The Count of Monte Cristo , begun in Chicago, was completed in California and the first Hollywood studio was established in 1911. Within a year another fifteen…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. Most major film and television studios and their executive offices, once located in Hollywood, have moved to nearby areas and suburbs. Although many films are…
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From A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms
1 . The district of Los Angeles between Beverly Hills and downtown that sits at the base of the hills that separate Los Angeles proper from the San Fernando Valley. Hollywood began as a ranch acquired by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox in 1886. In 1891, the Wilcox ranch was subdivided and sold for…
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From 100 Ideas that Changed Film
Without Hollywood, there would be no Bollywood, Lollywood (in Pakistan), or Nollywood (Nigeria). There also wouldn't have been variations on the studio system in Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. But the American movie capital might just as easily have been Jacksonville, Florida, or even Cuba. …
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
The center of American filmmaking, located in Southern California. Filmmaking is a multibillion-dollar industry that helped shape modern Los Angeles, California, and the United States. For better or worse, the world sees the United States through the lens of films made in Hollywood. American films…
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The Hollywood Ten were ten members of the film industry called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in October 1947 about their alleged membership in the Communist Party and activities at the beginning of the Cold War era. All ten were called as “unfriendly” …
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From The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets
The Hollywood diet products are intended to produce extreme weight loss in a very short time. The Hollywood diet 30 Day Miracle Program is intended to allow dieters to lose weight over the course of a month by using various Hollywood diet products combined with healthy living strategies. The…
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