`Hollywood cinema` The discription of hollywood as a `dream factory` expresses an essential contraction at the heart of hollywood film. Discuss.

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Hollywood : The Dream Factory

She sits , wide-eyed , staring at a tall , impossibly masculine yet manicured man . Not a hair out of place and as their lips meet after a severe and traumatic car-crash .Yes , a dream indeed . Hollywood , has over time created for the entire world , a dream that above all things is unattainable . This is , of course , part of the allure : why strive for something that is easily available ? In the movies , it appears to be acceptable to convey to the world a climate that cannot

exist . In the movies , more often than not , the hero always gets the girl , crime is always solved and to be blunt - sex is always good . It has successfully romanticized aspects of society that are less than glamorous , such as humanitarian activism , crime and worse than ever .war . Part of the reason why it has such a large effect on the public is due to the fact that reality does NOT always offer perfect solutions and viewers enjoy pretending that in a perfect world it is possible . The truth is , Paris Hilton 's life is NOT normal , adopting foreign children from war-torn countries is NOT glamorous and examining blood-soaked crime scenes is not always heroic . In this way , Hollywood has extended its altruistic and unrealistic expertise beyond the silver-screen and tainted the real world with Disney like efficacy . We see a culture gulping in huge quantities of Britney Speares ' misfortune , Lindsey Lohan 's latest battle with alcohol and drugs and an overall obsession with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie 's altruistic exploits . Yet this is not reality . It is a dream concocted by the intelligent directors and screen-who know how to hold an audience . Since 1918 Hollywood cinema has dominated the world , and even earlier , it has dominated the Australian marketplace . As a result of this hegemony , Australians , through cinematic exposure , have been raised with a U .S . belief system (Hutcherson , 1996 ) Australian and Hollywood Cinema by Tearlach Hutcherson http /www .utexas .edu /depts /cas /anzsana /s /hutcheson1996 .html

The writer clearly draws a distinction between Australian culture and American pop-culture that essentially highlights the seepage of the American Dream into the entire world . As an ideal The Dream has spanned the earth regardless of want or need for it

It can thus be said that those effortless `deities ' of the screen world are by no means a reflection of reality . But why ? Taking a look at the British filmmaker , Alfred Hitchcock 's first major movie The Lodger , we can see a stark reality based upon the fears and interests of the public still reeling in the aftermath of the ignoble Jack - the - Ripper . It was a formula that worked . Sadly , it would seem that Hollywood today is the basis upon which we build our world , rather than the other way around . More important , any Hollywood history illuminates the dichotomy between those movies that the system most highly prized and those we love now , raising some doubts about the...