HOH - Old Hollywood, New Hollywood (Assessment) Flashcards
In some studios this strong top-down management was later modified into a ‘unit-producer system’ where a crew worked together under one producer to complete six or _____ films a year.
Eight
The unit-producer system was clearly an economically sound way of working, since everybody on the team would become a ________ on a particular type of film and therefore able to set up equipment efficiently and effectively.
Specialist
Writers, directors, producers and stars are now able to negotiate their deals with majors using ______ and the media.
Agents
The Studio System has also been described as The Golden ______ of Hollywood or Classical Hollywood.
Age
During the early years of the Studio System a few top executives such as Jack Warner and Darryl _____ at Warner Brothers would oversee all film production, effectively keeping a tight personal control over everything that was going on in ‘their’ studio.
Zanuck
Under the Studio System a few major companies tried as far as possible to make, distribute and show their own films, thereby effectively exerting direct control over all three stages of the process (production, distribution and __________).
Exhibition
Some have compared the Hollywood studio system to a ________
Factory
The main Hollywood companies were driven over to this system in an effort to cut expenditure in the 1950s in order to survive in the face of the _______ of cinema going as a leisure activity.
Decline
The Studio System began to break up in the _____
1950s
As the film business evolved different industrial strategies to try to meet new challenges, particularly those offered by the advent of _________ as a competitive medium and the movement of people out of town into newly developed suburbs and away from the old established cinemas.
Television
The studio system product output in 1937 surged to over ____ feature films.
500
Under the package-unit system studios no longer had long term exclusive ________ for creative personnel.
Contracts
Hollywood’s greatest period of fame and cultural importance was arguably during the 19___s and 19___s
1930s and 1940s
In the unit-producer system those responsible for setting up the lighting, for example, could become noir-melodrama or musical or horror specialists and as a result would be able to create the desired genre lighting effects with the minimum of direction, thereby saving time and ______.
Money
Old Hollywood came to be replaced by New Hollywood, with the major studios not so involved in making their own films but increasingly interested in financing independent productions and then controlling their _________.
Distribution
