Classical Hollywood cinema

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Sound has always played a psychological role in producing or achieving the impression of reality and space in films. The years before sound came to the movies are known as the "silent era" among film scholars and historians. Sound didn't suddenly appear with the production of one film, and the line between the 'silent-era' and the 'sound-era' is entangled at best. It did not arrive in Hollywood all at once, it came gradually.
The first projected sound films took place in 1900 in Paris, but it last decades before the 'real sound' was made commercially practical.

The arrival of the so-called 'talking pictures' or 'talkies' made possible the incorporating synchronized dialogue in films. Released in October 1927, The Jazz Singer was the first 'talkie' originally produced, and it contained both silent scenes and sound sequences. Due to the big success of the musical film The Jazz Singer, the movie's profits were proof enough to the industry that the technology was worth investing in. Next year, in 1928, the first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York was released by Warner Brothers, and was directed by Bryan Foy being the first film defining a crime genre.

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Cuprins

Chapter I. "To be or not to be" classical Hollywood Cinema.......................................3
1. An overview of Classical Hollywood Cinema: from silent film to sound.......................................3
2. Classic film genres.........................................8
3. Elements of classical Hollywood style...........................14
End notes........................................21

Chapter II. 'Classical Hollywood Cinema' in 'The New Hollywood Cinema':
Taxi Driver and Goodfellas...........................22
1. A general introduction to the films of Martin Scorsese: influences from the Classical Hollywood Cinema...............................22
2. Classical stylistic elements in Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Goodfellas......................................... 26
3. In a world where violence has power..................................30

Bibliography........................................36