Old Hollywood Our Parents Remember

Classical Hollywood cinema is a character-centered cinema, according to David Bordwell. Hortense Powdermaker, on the other hand, described Hollywood as a ‘dream factory.’

It is very different from the way Hollywood today is, but at the same time, it is still the same, as it still is considered a ‘dream factory,’ where in anything can and may happen.

Source:

Bordwell, David. “Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrtion Principles and Procedures,” In Philip Rosen, ed., Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.