Classical Hollywood cinema

Classical Hollywood cinema designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production that arose in the Los Angeles film industry of the 1910s and 1920s.

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Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle of "invisible" style. That is, the camera and the sound recording should never call attention to themselves (as they might in a modernist or postmodernist work).

Related Topics:
Modernist - Postmodernist

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The mode of production came to be known as the Hollywood studio system, which standardized the way movies were produced.

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