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Contemporary films as produced by the Hollywood Majors: a leisure activity shaped by its market and its infrastructures

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Nowadays, when people talk about American films, what very often springs to their minds is the term blockbusters ; worldwide, when talking about the same subject, many people say that today’s Hollywood cinema does nothing more than merely entertain its audience. On a closer look, it cannot be denied that those blockbusters do not usually raise metaphysical questions, but after all, it is not their goal as most Hollywood producers and studios merely consider their activity as being part of the entertainment industry. Cinema is thus a leisure activity that has to be profitable, and this explains why, over the last thirty years or so, the Hollywood Majors have focussed their production plans on a certain kind of film- the so-called blockbusters. The present paper will therefore show how that fact has had repercussions on the American audience, on the way the latter has had access to that mass leisure and on the choice - or non-choice – it has thus been given
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Nathalie Dupont. Contemporary films as produced by the Hollywood Majors: a leisure activity shaped by its market and its infrastructures. Lagayette, Pierre. Loisirs et liberté en Amérique du Nord, Sorbonne Université Presses, pp.105-119, 2008, Americana (Collection), 978-2-84050-540-2. ⟨hal-04660771⟩

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