Hollywood Film History
The evolution of love in Hollywood Cinema; the love affair and its portrayal
The romance genre of Hollywood films has evolved throughout the decades to match the societal norms in which they were created. American society’s ideologies of romance and love the time in which seen through the film’s narrative structure, plot, the protagonists, and costumes. All of which are enhanced, in some way, by the setting of the scene and film technologies used to tell the narrative. A contrast can be seen in the way romance, love and sexual relations are depicted in films during the time of the Production Code, and those made after its elimination. “By the 1920s almost ever Hollywood film contained a romantic plot or subplot” (Benshoff et at, 2009, p.309). This continues to be true in today’s cinema. …show more content…
Made in the late 1950s An Affair to Remember by director Leo McCarey tells the love affair of Nickie Ferrante, a suave gold digger, and Terry McKay an entertainment singer. The two fall in love on a cruise ship even though they are engaged to other people back home. Dear John a modern love film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, directed by Lasse Hallström, is about John Tyree, a soldier, who meets a conservative Savannah Curtis while he is home during leave. The two fall in love in just only two weeks but are separated by war, and Savannah finds someone else to be
The romance genre of Hollywood films has evolved throughout the decades to match the societal norms in which they were created. American society’s ideologies of romance and love the time in which seen through the film’s narrative structure, plot, the protagonists, and costumes. All of which are enhanced, in some way, by the setting of the scene and film technologies used to tell the narrative. A contrast can be seen in the way romance, love and sexual relations are depicted in films during the time of the Production Code, and those made after its elimination. “By the 1920s almost ever Hollywood film contained a romantic plot or subplot” (Benshoff et at, 2009, p.309). This continues to be true in today’s cinema. …show more content…
Made in the late 1950s An Affair to Remember by director Leo McCarey tells the love affair of Nickie Ferrante, a suave gold digger, and Terry McKay an entertainment singer. The two fall in love on a cruise ship even though they are engaged to other people back home. Dear John a modern love film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, directed by Lasse Hallström, is about John Tyree, a soldier, who meets a conservative Savannah Curtis while he is home during leave. The two fall in love in just only two weeks but are separated by war, and Savannah finds someone else to be