Hollywood and Globalization 2
Hollywood
is the most famous spot for film making and movies in the United States and the
whole world. It is also notable for being the home of entertainment and
historic studios. When I was a little kid, I saw a documentary movie about
Hollywood that talks about how they make movies, how many studios they have,
and how to addition there. I was amazed by that movie and always wanted to go
there. Obviously, globalization helped me and the world to know all about
Hollywood. There are many impacts of globalization on Hollywood. This research
will focus on what are the effects of globalization on Hollywood through the
last decades. Also technology played a big role in making Hollywood so famous.
It is the biggest impact of globalization.
There are many effects of globalization on
Hollywood that changed the distribution patterns. For example,
technology is one of the biggest impacts of globalization that made changes in
how Hollywood became more famous. My argument is, if globalization helped
Hollywood and movies to become famous. Why globalization did not help in other
movies from other cultures to be famous, or why they are not as famous as
Hollywood. Is it because most of the world speaks English? I want to argue
about that because it is actually how I learned English (from Movies). For example,
since there are not as many Arabic movies as the American movies, if
Middle-East movies were famous as American movies, people would learn Arabic
language more.
Hollywood
and Globalization 3
For
instance, this research talks about the recent success of Bollywood’s influence
on the Western movie industry, particularly Hollywood – culminating with the
eight-Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire in 2008.
“In
fact, Indian cinema is the world’s largest film industry (in terms of the
number of films produced and people employed, though not of its finances) and
the home of Bollywood, with an estimated 3.6 billion tickets sold globally in
2001 (compared to Hollywood’s 2.6 billion), is arguably one of the world’s most
prolific cultural clusters. Many Bollywood films make full, explicit use of
song and dance to describe the actual journey into Diasporic space; the space
of imagination is thus amplified across national borders” (International
Communication Association, 2011, p. 2). This research shows how
popular Bollywood became from 2001 to nowadays. My concern is, what if Middle
East movie industry were as popular as Bollywood or Hollywood. People from all
around the world would know so much about the culture and the language. Here is
another example, the Korean movie industry as they call it the Korean Wave (hallyu).
Kim
Hogarth (2013) noted that the economy of south Korea grown much faster because
of the Korean TV dramas “The Korean Wave has had a significant impact on the
Korean national economy through exports of its products and increased tourism,
between 2003 and 2004, the number of tourists to Korea increased from 2.8
million to 3.7 million, following the successful airing of the TV drama Winter
Sonata” (p.136). The two examples that I mentioned above shows that not only
Hollywood is becoming famous, but also other cultures from other countries are
becoming famous like Bollywood and the Korean movie industry. Many movie
industries from other cultures are considering Hollywood as utopia in film
making and the movie industry itself. Therefore, they are being influenced by Hollywood in making films like
Bollywood or Korea.
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