What is the reason for Hollywood to produce genre films?

After World War I, the American film industry developed rapidly, gradually surpassing Europe and becoming the largest film market in the world. Cheap nickel cinemas spread films to American working-class workers, immigrants and so on, and civilians became an important part of urban movie audiences.

The core industrial model of integrating production, distribution and projection reduces the cost and risk of film production and ensures the monopoly position of Hollywood in the film industry. Accordingly, the type-centered horizontal production mode came into being. Studio system, star system and genre film creation will all polish and shape genre films that will create the "golden age" of Hollywood.

After the 1990s, the United States only regarded movies as a means of entertainment, and Hollywood was a factory that produced stories and fantasies. Therefore, its first concern is the commercial value of movies, so the so-called "American blockbuster" appeared.

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The appearance, development and maturity of genre films all stem from the evolution and development of the films themselves. At the beginning of the invention of the film, films that emphasized visual wonders such as juggling and performance to produce direct sensory stimulation occupied a dominant position, but soon, the film was more closely related to the traditional art form-literature. The appearance of feature films indicates that complex stories and more exquisite narrative skills have become necessary for creation.

The theme story with continuous editing as the core and its matching narrative language have become the mainstream. They aim to eliminate the direct and immediate pleasure output of attractive movies, organize the shots and scenes with narrative logic, and highlight the characters and actions of the story. Movies are no longer a series of leaping and open wonders, but a closed fictional world.

This film form with value presupposition, narrative as the center and editing as the leading factor has been established in Hollywood, but it can't be called genre film at this time. Genre film is a more complex, standardized and mature narrative film.

It was not until the 1930s that the classic Hollywood industrial system was mature that it was on the right track. In the context of genre films, different themes and stories are classified and integrated according to the order of westerns, musicals and gangster films. Studios can "label" films through genre film system, and different labels correspond to different audiences.

Genre films can create a preset and complete imaginary world by focusing on the story of a protagonist with a specific length and applying specific shooting techniques, editing and soundtrack under specific production standards, and the audience can communicate with Hollywood film industry through this created world.