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Fritz Lang - Conquering The Movie Industry

By Carl Dinello · 13 years ago

Fritz Lang (1890-1976) represents one of the more controversial Austrian-German-American directors, screenwriters and producers. He was a master at using melodramatic elements of conflict and ambiguity in his works and was considered to have one ...

Hollywood Film Genres

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

How is a Hollywood film genre created, and who creates it? The answer is really quite uncomplicated. There are two creators of film genre; the audience and the studio. While popular forms of genre entertainment ...

Science Fiction Classics Start Here

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

Science fiction has long been a favorite subject of Hollywood film makers. Great science fiction movies were being made as early as the 1930s and have provided a solid foundation for modern day science fiction. ...

Elements of Film Noir

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

Film Noir, derived from the French term meaning 'black film,' is a style and approach to the production of many classic black and white Hollywood crime movies. While opinions differ on its definition, there are ...

The Hollywood Detective Movie

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

The Hollywood detective film genre has consistently proven itself popular with movie-going audiences. The attraction to this type of character and the stories involving detectives actually began on radio with a number of successful detective ...

Hollywood Musicals - Rich In History

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

The Hollywood musical is recognized as a distinguished part of our movie history, playing an integral role in the evolution of movies during the 1920s through 1950s. Today, despite this fact, most people are unaware ...

The Gold Rush - A Hollywood Comedy Classic

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

The Gold Rush, the 1925 silent screen comedy, is generally thought to be Charlie Chaplin’s most well known film. Throughout the history of motion pictures, both film critics and viewers have always considered this Chaplin ...

Early Hollywood Movie Memories Will Live On

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

As far back as the early to middle part of the 20th century, Hollywood produced a number of films that are remembered today as being classics. There is no doubt that these movie memories will ...

1940s Hollywood Movie Memories - The War Years

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

It was hard to believe that just after what was thought to be Hollywood's greatest decade there seemed to be such lost promise. With the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and the resulting outbreak of ...

1930s Hollywood Movie Memories - The Golden Age Of Hollywood

By Carl Dinello · 14 years ago

The early part of the 1930's provided less in the way of Hollywood Movie Memories, and more in the way of memories of the Great Depression. In spite of the decades slow start, Hollywood would ...