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美国的电影制片厂在四十年代的全盛期每年发行五百部以上的长片。到1970年它们只生产两百部左右的影片。美国电影观众的高峰期在1946年,当时将近八亿人次的美国人通过了影院的十字转门。就是这同一代人,几十年后,年度售票量跌到了不到两亿人次。在本文中,电影历史学家道格拉斯·戈梅里问好莱坞发生了什么?他驳斥了公众的一般看法认为电视的突起导致了电影的跌落。相反地,戈梅里相信第二次世界大战之后向市郊的发展改变了,在许多方面是改善了美国人生活中电影的地位。它的结论是好莱坞比以往任何时候都更兴旺。 戈梅里是马里兰大学传播学教授,并且是美国国立博物馆伍德罗·威尔逊国际中心为华盛顿学者所设传播媒介研究项目的研究员。他写过好几本书,包括《好莱坞电影系统》和《电影概史》。
In the heyday of the 1940s, American film studios released more than 500 feature films annually. By 1970 they produced only about two hundred films. The peak of American moviegoers In 1946, nearly 800 million Americans at the time passed the turnstiles of theaters. It is this same generation, a few years later, the annual ticket sales fell to less than 200 million passengers. In this article, film historian Douglas Gomel asks what has happened to Hollywood, refuting the general public perception that the bursting of television has caused the film to fall. On the contrary, Gomel believed that the development of the suburbs after World War II had changed, in many ways improving the status of films in American life. It concludes that Hollywood is more prosperous than ever before. Gomel is a professor of communication at the University of Maryland and a fellowship researcher at a media research project for Washington scholars at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies in the United States National Museum. He has written several books, including “Hollywood Film System” and “Film History.”