Becoming
Formation of American cinema, perhaps, one of the most popular to date, began in 1892 when Thomas Edison built the kinescope. The first public session was held in New York music hall Bayela and cooker. The session consisted of a small humorous and dance numbers.
After 9 years were "Nikelodeony" - kind of cheap theaters in the U.S. early XX century, the entrance to which was worth 5 cents. Every year the number of theaters increased, and by 1908 there were more than three thousand. Of course, the new entertainment enjoyed great success with viewers. The intensification of competition led to the collapse of smaller studios.
They began to appear long association - called kinotresty. Those in turn were combined with rolling companies. For example:
In 1912 "Paramount" (the title of 1927).
In 1919, "United artists" (Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and David Griffith).
In 1924 "Metro - Golden - Meir."
In 1925 "Warner Brothers".
The first studio in California was established in 1911, an independent company "Nestor." By 1914, construction began on a more fundamental studies is largely due to active participation in projects of companies included in the Company kinopatentov "Bayohraf", "Vaytanraf" etc. Targeting the American film industry to the mass audience very limited "authoring" capabilities directors.
The system called for "entertainment" films that bring more profit and therefore came to the forefront not directors and actors - the stars (there was a system of movie stars) and producers.
The development of American cinema is not always proceeded smoothly. Contradictions, the collision of different directions and trends, ruin and recovery studies, and their union. Quite clearly in the life of Hollywood viewed trend towards consolidation of film production. For example, in 1915, was established studio "Underground" in 1919 - "Holdvin Pikcherz" and in 1924 they united in the "Metro-Holdvin-Mayer."
Heyday
Major achievements related to the development of Hollywood genres:
Comedy M. Linder, Charles Chaplin, B. Keaton, Lloyd G., Marx Brothers
Romance with Rudolph Valentino
John Ford Westerns
Film-noir with H. Bogart
Musicals of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
A. Hitchcock Thrillers
and so on until the fantastic films, horror, thriller and blockbuster last time - all these genres and live there "on demand" mass audience, asking very narrow scope for self directed.
The postwar period
For a typical post-war period peplumov - vysokobyudzhetnyh major films of the great timing by the ancient stories, with many grand scenes masovok and spectacular scenery the imagination, for example, "Ben-Hur." This one started the popularity of widescreen movies, which allowed the viewer to "open their eyes wider," enjoying the view, built in the frame. Also the first decades after the war are sometimes flourishing traditional Hollywood musicals.
The modern period
The modern period of Hollywood cinema began in the late 1960s with the collapse of the studio system. Interest in traditional stereotyped studio movies with stars falling steadily, and many even big studios were on the brink of ruin. Studio bosses were amazed about what movie wants the audience, and began experimenting. Among young directors, who was given a chance to demonstrate their abilities, were George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma. And it is this group of directors has formed a modern cinema in the form in which it entered the XXI century. Their films in the late 1960s and early 1970s were a huge success, precisely because they appeared the word "blockbuster". Managers of large studies have come to trust the young directors, invite them to shoot was cool, especially since they came out of film schools and small studios, could be concluded in a very small budgets. A powerful wave of new, unusual, frank movie 1970 captured the audience and in Hollywood movies has started a new era.
Hollywood cinema serves an ideological tool, a kind of symbol of modern America and the means of forming an image of this country in the world.