CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Movie Palace, Carl Laemmle, Kristin Thompson
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Hollywood became the symbolic centre of that filmmaking activity when the. Within five years, the majority of films were being shot in. Increased demand for film product led to a search for locales that offered temperate climate, varied topography, and reduced expenses. California promoted itself as an ideal site for new businesses. Developments facilitated hollywood becoming central to the industry"s growth and status during the period of the 1910s and 1920s. Collectively, these developments fostered within the public a desire to know more about the workings of moviemaking. Hollywood, the place, became instrumental in fuelling the public"s fantasies about. The promise of fame and fortune that film could confer on any individual was realized in the figure of the star, whose glamorous lifestyle became synonymous with hollywood . When invocation of the name hollywood conjured up a stable set of meanings, the conversion of place to symbolic site was complete.
