Moving Pictures
Categories in which conventions regarding characters, scenes, and themes recur in combination (drama, comedy, action and adventure, etc.)
What are genres?
Situation in which an industry is controlled by only a few firms/companies
What is an oligopoly?
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When creative talent is firmly controlled by powerful studios
What is the studio system?
The first "talkie" (movie with sound)
What is The Jazz Singer?
Small and uncomfortable makeshift theater that showed silent films
What is a nickelodeon?
The 3 alternatives to Hollywood movies
What is global cinema, documentaries and independent films?
The first full length feature film
What is The Birth of a Nation?
Thin strips of transparent, pliable material used in roll film
What is celluloid?
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Factors that influenced movies and the Hollywood studio system during 1940's-1970's
What is new regulations, social developments and competing mass media?
The person who invented moving pictures
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
The Big Five vertically integrated studios
What is Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and RKO?
The 1948 court ruling which forced the big, vertically integrated studios to break up their ownership of movie production, distribution, and exhibition.
What is The Paramount Decision?