Big Data For The Us American Film Industry

In fact, Webb notes that today, only one major studio still exists in the city, as most back lots have turned into offices that coordinate filming activities elsewhere. This small fact proves that “Hollywood has always been a concept as much as a place” (xi), a symbol people reference for the movie industry, no matter where the movies were actually produced.

In this book, King examines the Hollywood “Renaissance” from the late 1960s to the late 1970s as well as some of the industrial factors that shape the current dominance of the corporate blockbuster. King begins by stating that there are two distinct periods when addressing “New Hollywood” including the Hollywood Renaissance and the New Hollywood. Geoff King analyses new Hollywood dynamically and accessibly in his text and discusses diverse films, film makers and film companies apart from concentrating on the interactions between the film texts, social contexts, and their producers by using examples across Hollywood and its genres. He further discusses how positions of studios within media conglomerate, and the relationship between production for big and small screens as well as the influence of television, advertising and franchising on the New Hollywood have been transformed the form of the films (King 137-140).

The creation of this homogenous world causes a bubble where the integration of national economies, markets and cultures concedes to an "essentially American dominated culture" (Wayne, 2002, p.2). This import and export of culture, the bubble, and alimented by Globalization itself, brings about that Hollywood captures around 70% of British film market, for example, and the British film industry captures only 1% of the American market (Elliot, 2000). Jameson comes to the problematic assertion that consumption of Hollywood films breaks up the seamless web of habits and habitual practices' of a national culture.

They used facts and arguments from various sources, such as studies and authors. As they are introducing the topic, they use the ideas of Lev Manovich to justify their argument that the name “Big Data” can be misleading. Manovich observed that Big Data has been used to refer to data sets large enough to require supercomputers, yet large amounts of data can now be analyzed on much simpler computers. Boyd and Crawford contend that the value of the industry does not simply come from the large data sets, but the “patterns that can be derived by making connections between pieces of data…” By relating Manovich’s idea, their argument made more sense. As computers become more advanced, bigger data sets look much simpler. But the connections Big Data makes are still valuable, no matter how advanced computers

This article is relevant to this week 's topic because it reinforces and highlights the important fact that Hollywood is no longer an American or Western exclusive industry. In fact, the Hollywood of today is practically Global Hollywood.

Although, the movies released started to attract younger generations, so the industry capitalized on this trend by releasing cheaper movies, of which some became critically acclaimed. By looking

Analyzing the studio system simplistically we see basic capitalism. In the 1920’s movies became more popular, so fulfilling the rules of basic supply and demand, studios were formed to profit from the insatiable public desire to see more films (in

This research paper will cover the topic of the American film industry, globalisation and how globalisation has impacted on the change of the American film industry. I will also continue on to how the American film industry and its producers can integrate successfully internationally.

Through the Big Data film, viewers are taught that data tracked through search engines can be instrumental. The tracked data can be used to predict trends over time. For example in the film, the researchers were able to track the number of times that flu symptoms were searched. Then with this information, the researchers were able to accurately predict the onset of a flu season prior to the Center for Disease Control report. Additionally, this data can also be used to keep the information up to date. For example, during the hurricane season, people used Twitter to provide updates on where the damage occurred and give details on to what degree property was damaged. Recently, the city of Tallahassee used twitter to give updates on power outages that occurred during the most recent storm. On Twitter, the city of Tallahassee released the areas affected by the storm and approximated guess of how many people were without power. Data can be useful because it helps to keep people informed and permits further analysis of everyday tasks performed on the

As the movie industry moved into the 80's and 90's a new and distinctive type of film emerged. This new style was the Hollywood studio blockbuster. As the studios began making more and more blockbusters a vacuum was created that independent film makers were happy to fill. Though opposites in style, they compliment one another in the main goal of Hollywood: making a profit. These two distinctive styles of film have simultaneously worked together to see the reemergence and recovery of the movie industry.

After the Second World War, Hollywood was faced with many issues regarding the historical changes in politics, in society, in the economy, in technology, in the media and in culture generally. This significantly affected Classical Hollywood, and ultimately, it faced its darkest period, coming dangerously close to bankruptcy. This essay will focus on both the major causes of the Hollywood recession in regards to both the legal and social issues of America, and also the impact this had on the Hollywood studio system during the American economic boom. The reasons for decline of the Old Hollywood Studios mainly resided in sociological factors.

Hollywood, widely known as ‘dream factory’, originally functioned as an escape route from the controlling powers over film companies of the Eastern Trust (1909). The geography and low land prices of California made it an ideal and profitable place to set up film studios. By 1920s it became the major production unit of American films and massive exporter of films abroad. By 1930s Hollywood studios were totally vertically integrated, where modes of controlling production, distribution and exhibition-everything came under its ambit. Same year also witnessed Hollywood making around 600 films a year, six times more than its western counterparts and had huge influence over American audience. By 1948, everything changed when Supreme Court

The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry's existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism.

The costs, methods of distribution, and themes of Hollywood and Nollywood films reflect strongly their target audiences; how the target audience affects the production of a film and how the production of a movie is designed to capture a specific

Over the years, Bollywood has emerged as its own distinct identity in the global Film industry. Bollywood is the global leader in production of movies with a staggering 27,000 featured films and thousands of short films. ( Pillania 1) However, Hollywood is still the leader in revenues generated. Due to the growth of the Indian market and globalization, Bollywood has made its way to the international markets. Globalization is often misrepresented as the growing influence of the western culture in the world and so we tend to state that Hollywood is influencing Bollywood to a great extent. An argument can be made to justify the validity of that statement. However, this paper aims at presenting the influence of Bollywood on Hollywood in