+1 862 207 3288 What factors enabled independent films to proliferate from the 1980s to the 2000s? Identify the various support systems that emerged to support independent production, and identify and describe the four major trends of independent filmmaking. What was the nature of the relationship between each trend’s representative directors and companies and the major Hollywood studios?
What is “intensified continuity”? In what ways does this system of formal conventions depart from the classical continuity style of Hollywood filmmaking? Specifically, how has video and television presentation influenced editing and cinematographic strategies within mainstream Hollywood cinema during the eighties, nineties, and 2000s? Cite examples from the text or from the film screened in […]
How did the policies of “synergy” and “high concept” transform American film industry structure in the 1980s and 1990s? What kinds of films resulted from these policies, and in what ways did distributors and exhibitors try to profit from such films?
How did the advent of home video technologies change the American film industry? Trace the evolution of home video from the 1970s up through 2000. In what ways did the studios—who in 1976 regarded home video as a competitor—exploit these technologies to their advantage?
Compare and contrast the approaches of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese to studio filmmaking. In what ways did each director “revise” genres from the classical Hollywood era? How did the personal style of each director reflect or deviate from the norms of classical Hollywood filmmaking?
a) Asignments must display knowledge of relevant theory, concepts and literature. b) The theory and concepts must be applied to discussing the asignment question and the student’s own disciplinary field and not just re-counted to air knowledge. c)Assignments focus upon contentious and problematic issues, therefore they must contain a well argued case with an appropriate […]
Trace the evolution of the Hollywood studio system’s economic recovery in the middle and late 1970s. What were the important blockbusters of the period? How were these blockbusters created and marketed? What happened to the status of the director as this recovery period continued into the 1980s?
How did European art cinema conventions influence the filmmakers of the New Hollywood? In what ways did art cinemas’ narrative and stylistic techniques infuse new life into standard Hollywood genres? Support your answer with an examination of the “art films” of two of the following three American directors: Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola.
Analyze the important social, economic, and industrial factors leading up to the emergence of the New Hollywood in the early 1970s. What were the causes of the industry-wide recession of 1969 to 1970? What new audiences did the Majors subsequently attempt to target? Describe the ways in which Hollywood style was modified in order to […]
Pick two of the following three countries: Italy, Britain, Germany. How do the representative films of these nations’ young cinemas of the 1960s relate to prior national filmmaking trends or movements? How do they relate to political or social trends? Explain how the rise and fall of these nations’ young cinemas were affected by the […]