Cinema of the united states

Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period. Since the 1920s, the American film industry has grossed more money every yearthan that of any other country.
Golden Age of Hollywood
During the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, which lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920s to the early 1960s, thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. The start of the Golden Age was arguably when The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent era and increasing box-officeprofits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a formula - Western, slapstick comedy, musical, animated cartoon, biopic (biographical picture) - and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio.
Hollywood produced a lot of very famous and important movies through all this year, much of these movies have been of thebest of all the times, there are five important films of the North American cinema:
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. Set in the 19th century American South, the film stars Clark Gable, VivienLeigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel, among others, and tells a story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a Southern point of view.
The film received 10 Academy Awards (8 competitive, 2 honorary), a record that stood for 20 years.[1] Ben-Hur surpassed it in 1960.[2] In the American Film Institute's inaugural Top 100 Best American Films of All Time listof 1998, it was ranked fourth, and in 1989 was selected to be preserved by the National Film Registry.[3]The film was the longest American sound film made up to that time – 3 hours 44 minutes, plus a 15 minute intermission, and was among the first of the major films shot in color (Technicolor), winning the first Academy Award for Best Cinematography in the category for color films. It became thehighest-grossing film of all-time shortly after its release, holding the position until 1966; after adjusting for inflation, it has still earned more than any other film in theater rentals. As of 2011, the only surviving cast members are Olivia de Havilland, Ann Rutherford, Alicia Rhett, and Mary Anderson.
Gone with the Wind was the first film to get more than five Academy Awards. Of the 17competitive awards which were given at the time, Gone with the Wind had 13 nominations. The Academy did not award Gone with the Wind Best Supporting Actor which was won by Thomas Mitchell, who starred in supporting roles in both Gone with the Wind and Stagecoach (for which he won the Oscar) that year, and Best Music (Song). It also was awarded the Greatest Film in History by the program Best In Film: TheGreatest Films of Our Time, which aired March 22, 2011.
It was the Winner of 10 Academy Awards. (8 regular, 1 honorary, 1 technical)
Presupuesto y recaudación
La película contó con un increíble presupuesto que alcanzó 4,25 millones de dólares. Se convirtió en la película más larga y más cara hasta ese momento.
Su éxito en taquilla fue excepcional, por encima de películas como The Sound ofMusic y Los diez mandamientos. Ajustando la recaudación por la inflación, resulta la película más taquillera de toda la historia, superando incluso a otras como Titanic y Avatar.2 3 Y es que Selznick estaba convencido de que esta película sería un clásico.
As of 2008, the overall box office revenue generated by the six Star Wars films has totalled approximately $4.41 billion,[1] making it the...