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BenschoffandGriffinChapter2withaudioHistoryandStructureofHollywoodFilmmaking.pptx"The Structure and History of Hollywood Filmmaking" By Harry M. Benschoff and Sean Griffin
Presented by Ashley Castano
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Understand how Hollywood Filmmaking was developed, and the history that makes it the style it is today.
Identify the stylistic structures and designs that make Hollywood Filmmaking.
Identify how Hollywood films develop underlying issues regarding race, gender, sexuality, and class.
Learning Objectives
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Thesis: Hollywood cinema seems to be the benchmark for American filmmaking based on its history and structural design that asserts social issues, such as, gender, race, sexuality, and class unto its audience, but in more of a tamed fashion as to not disengage the audience from the narrative.
Main Ideas:
Structure and Style
Culture and History
Thesis and Main Ideas
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“Both Hollywood and non-Hollywood films have evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century, in conjunction with the broader social, political, and cultural events of American History" (Benshoff & Griffin 21).
Classical Hollywood Style:
Cinematic elements – mise-en-scene and editing
“spoon feed” the audience the storyline
Linear narrative (ie beginning, middle, end or climax and closure)
The Structure and History of Hollywood Filmmaking
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“…most Hollywood films (throughout its history and still today) encode white patriarchal capitalism as central and desirable via Hollywood narrative form…” (Benshoff & Griffin 25).
The white male tends to be defined by his actions, job, alpha male characteristics; whereas the female heroine is usually known for her captivating beauty or femininity and more dainty-like qualities (ex. Indiana Jones or early Disney Princess movies).
Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom Scene
Hollywood films have rarely strayed away from the typical white heterosexual male protagonists; however, when they do, not many characteristics differ
Female protagonist, but still white race
African American protagonist, but still male
Structure and History of Hollywood
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“[a] strategy that helped Hollywood come to dominate the US film industry was the creation of an oligopoly […] in which a few companies control an entire industry" (Benshoff & Griffin 29).
“Hollywood system is an example of […] cultural imperialism, the promotion and imposition of ideals and ideologies throughout the world via cultural means” (29).
“In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled that cinema was not an art form protected as free speech, but simply a business and therefore open to regulation” (33).
The Business of Hollywood Delving into the history and background
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Written by priest, and catholic layman
Political themes and violence censored
Sex and sexuality monitored
Discrimination became institutionalized
“Code outlawed the depiction or discussion of homosexuality and forbade miscegenation – the romantic or sexual coupling of people from different races” (Benshoff & Griffin 36).
Hollywood Cinema Production Code
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Stereotypical classical Hollywood style Protagonists
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How does modern day culture and social issues relate to the films that are being produce in Hollywood or non-Hollywood films?
Try to see if you can come up with protagonists that did not follow the ideological status quo of American Society that Hollywood Filmmaking followed. What characters or films did you come up with?
Discussion Questions
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Works Cited
Benshoff, Harry M., and Sean Griffin. "Chapter 2." America on Film Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies. Chichester (GB): Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 21-43. Print.
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