Analysis Of The United States Is Responsible For A Film Industry

There is one kind of product which needs multi-million investments but can see a return in only 15 to 30 days. It is based on innovation and represents a country's culture. Depending on its collection of audio and visual experiences, it can earn praises or criticism from thousands of people. Films are enchanting products for the world.

American Experience, a PBS program that shares stories with us from our history, displays the very events and tools that shaped our nation. Their film: Scottsboro Trials, was a moving and informative movie about racism in America and the impact it has left on us. To this day, this movie still has an important message to teach and show. Racism is still a problem and more than likely always will be, this is a sad part of life that we must do our best to deal with. American Experience puts racism up in our faces and reminds us of what we have done. This film opens up our eyes to our past and in doing so, makes us better people.

Ch.2 #1 - The motion picture industry is a competitive industry. Each year, more than 50 studios produce a total of 300 to 400 new motion pictures. This managerial report is based on data collected for a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005 and will evaluate the financial success of these motion pictures by using 4 major variables – (A) Opening Gross Sales, (B) Total Gross Sales, (C) Number of Theaters, and (D) Weeks in Top 60.

Hungry for Change, by James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch, is an informational documentary on how to achieve vibrant health, abundant energy, and achieve your ideal body weight without dieting . The filmmakers, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch, are nutritionists. According to the book Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition, a nutritionist is a person who specializes in the study of nutrition.

Hugo and The Artist are two films that share one pronounced quality. The ability of the two films to be so relatable simply to attract a greater audience has proved itself to be a great way in obtaining a greater number of interested spectators. Robert Sklar notes an enlightening topic within his book, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, as he states, “In motion-picture comedy, a medium close to popular moods and tastes, the pendulum in the early years of Depression and sound swung back to the rough-and-tumble chaos of the Keystone style, this tie in a highly verbal form with a more pointed anti bourgeois animus” (120). Note, he is referencing the transition from silent films to talkies in this particular instance, but his point is still valid in other cases. For

In this section, I analyze the sex education films, “Three Counties Against Syphilis” and “Easy to Get” and policies produced by the United States during and after World War II that influenced the public intention to find a faster, safer prophylaxis for venereal disease. This public intention to find a better prophylaxis for venereal disease led to racist and sexist crusades to contain venereal disease in communities that were considered dispensable for the benefit of the valued lives of the middle-class white populations. Furthermore, this section briefly examines how racialized stereotypes from USPHS sex education films were manifested into real-life biomedical research in Terre Haute Penitentiary and

Despite that the lack of quality is evident, there is limited creativity involved in terms of development and production. There are problems associated with the distribution network also. Movies lose their sheen in this prospective and not do well. This raises the opinion that the box office is facing disaster. I believe that there is disproportion between the number of movies and the cash pool of the industry.

Culture clash within the United States has been a prevalent topic of interest in the recent years. Understanding and tolerance of others religions has seemingly become a thing of the past. Hate filled rhetoric flows from the mouths of many as tensions grow. Religions have been painted with stereotypes due to the actions of a certain few. This rhetoric has created a massive divide within the United States leaving minorities at even more of a disadvantage. Among many, Hesham Issawi is an example of a person who has tried to push back against these stereotypes through art and film. In his film American East, Issawi demonstrates the struggles Muslim Americans go through daily. Portrayed as the typical American Muslim, main character Mustafa Marzoke (Sayed Badreya) is shown experiencing everyday struggles. Issawi pushes against the terrorist stereotype stapled to his culture. Additionally, he dabbles with showing the hatred shown

No longer is box-office the main source of revenue for studios as it was in the early days of Hollywood. Today only 6 conglomerates are responsible for almost all of the world's filmmaking. Lucrative licensing deals, merchandising, spin-offs, television shows and so forth have become more important than the actual box-office generated. According to Jay Epstein "Even though today's system of filmed entertainment shares much of the same physical geography, nomenclature, and mythology as the studio system that preceded it, it did not evolve out of it… it appeared with surprising suddenness, and replaced it." He argues that a handful of aspiring businessmen took the reins of the industry and steered it to where it is today. These 6 conglomerates hold 72% of the total market share and have an average of $26.5 billion revenue, while the total box-office revenue in the U.S. in 2000 was only $7.6 billion8. Film production today is not the expression of the director, writer or producer but more their attempt to capitalize on the medium. Modern films cost an average if $100 million in advertising and production cost, while the average box-office of

Overall, the entire U.S. blockbuster mentality is to make a film that is successful and makes money even if there is a lack of story and more spectacle. Many films that are blockbusters are not great films. In general you can take Michael Bay films such as the “Transformer’s” trilogy which are devoted to give action pack spectacle over creative story. This actually effected national markets where more people overseas wanted to see and were willing to go and pay more for films that show things that are bigger and have more spectacle.

If a movie studio were to approach me about the use of my music in a movie there are several terms that would have to be outlined. These include payment, exclusivity, use, territory, and time (The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division para. 35).

Traditionally Hollywood film studios were only concerned with the domestic gross of their films as that usually accounted from most of the revenue but According to Box Office Mojo both of these films made 67%+ of their revenue from overseas markets. This worldwide box office has been especially prevalent in recent years.

Hollywood today spends more money on movies than ever before, with an average budget of $140 million per movie. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; the most expensive movie ever made; cost approximately $378.5 million and that was five years ago. This isn’t surprising since history is witness to a rising trend in money spent on movies, even after adjusting for inflation, however, their impact on the industry isn’t as large as their budgets. Over the years, lower cost productions like B-Movies have played a major role in carrying the industry forward by keeping it stable, moving and profitable in times of trouble. B-Movies came to be the need of the hour after The Great Depression and World War II. Money was tight everywhere and Hollywood could not continue making extravagant movies therefore they turned to low budget commercial films. These movies not only have an economical significance in Hollywood, they have made more than one contribution to the industry. These low risk movies provided directors, writers and producers with a wide scope for experimentation and led to the creation of many a genres and sub-genres. The origins of B-Movies are humble but over the years that they grew in Hollywood, they became more significant and successful, yet their progress from “Rags to Riches” remains more a behind-the-scenes heroic act than a superhero effort.

What factors led to the development of the motion picture industry? Well what did lead to the industry being developed? Well you can start with a simple human flaw, gambling. The ever need to prove another person wrong, and adding to the stakes by placing a simple wager. A wealthy railway magnate, Leland Standford wanted to prove another fellow gambler wrong. He theorized that at any time all of a horses’ hooves would be off the ground while it ran a race. This simple wager would in turn; lead to what we call the motion movie industry. Being wealthy had its advantages, Standford was able to hire Eadweard Muybridge, a well know and respect photographer. By setting up his cameras in the straight-away of a racetrack, he was able to time the exposures

After taking a closer look at the film industry in the current years, it is easy to see that the structure market of this industry is an oligopolistic market. This means that there are several big companies that contribute to more than fifty percent of the production of films produced each year. At the moment some of the companies that together combine for more than this fifty percent are Sony, Warner Brothers, Disney, and Paramount. These big production companies have a big hold on the market, and are able to produce movies each month to keep a tight grip on the market share. This makes them the leaders in this market, but there is still room for a private independent company to produce a film and have great success (“Leading domestic distributors”, 2013).