The Studio System

The main point of the studio system for the studio system is one of the largest industries in the United States and the world, but the internal operation of Hollywood's "Dream Factory" may be that little understanding is done outside the business Hmm. Hollywood Studios: History is the first book to describe and analyze the complete development, classic business and restructuring of a global enterprise that is producing and distributing most of the movies we are seeing.

When thinking about Hollywood, they may imagine a fascinating version of the studio system era - when the stars are stars, big fives and little fives are making movies, the golden age of movies is the golden age You should. The studio system era is a hierarchical centralized system, but large companies manage employees and their talents very much. For example, a star actor who signed a long-term contract with a studio can only make a movie for the company. On the one hand, this is highly exploitative of the labor force due to extreme limitations on agents. Meanwhile, the studio offers authentic works. Longer contracts provide a degree of stability to workers, and each studio eventually forms its own aesthetic. It is worth mentioning that the star is neither the starting point nor the ending point of the film production labor force. In today's studio system, the production and distribution of films requires the labor and talent of many workers.

From the 1920s to the 1940s, the studio system dominated American filmmaking. Under the studio system, every talent has signed a contract with the studio, from writers to directors and actors. Main studio such as Paramount and Warner Bros. runs the movie industry like a factory assembly line and controls which movie works and how to distribute them. When the US Supreme Court resolved the studio's monopoly in 1948, the studio system ended. The movie industry is in trouble. The 1950s brought new competition from television and controversial writers, directors, actor black lists suspected of being Communists. Hollywood's reaction was to make bigger and more spectacular movies, make almost every color movie and divide the gigantic theaters into smaller multicomplexes called multiplexers.