Independent American Popular Culture

usual, a cold Ankara night showed its face. Me and my friends made a beeline for "Naif Kitap Evi". Sunday nights, our "Talk Cinema" group come together and we talk about today's cinema mind and classics. That day was different. Same as it ever was, we began our conversation and talked about Andrei Tarkovsky and his cinematography. While we were talking about, his movie, "Solaris", Erman drew our attention to adaptation of the "Solaris" which is directed and written by Steven Soderbergh. We generally talk about Cinema of Europe, Bollywood and Cinema of Asia. If we talk about America, it is probably Independent American Cinema. All of us accepted that American Film Industry stinks and we don't talk about it much except a few directors like Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, etc. . When Erman drew our attention to America, Esma proposed to change the topic which was about famous director's cinematography. And, we started to talk effects of popular culture on Film Industry.
According to her, Hollywood standardize the films. Hollywood specifies people's needs and desires. Then, it creates a bazaar which is constructed by genres. Every person chooses his favorites and he thinks that he chooses it for his fun. But, Hollywood states the standards already. Actually they have no choice to present their ideas to society. Unfortunately, media helps Hollywood. Media provides a recognizability to Hollywood but it passes over the other countries' movies. In this way, cinema gets stuck in borders of America. Because of easy accessibility of Hollywood, people get used to eat pills which are introduced by American Film Industry. Pills contain velocity, action and cliche but familiarized people of world feel that they like undistinguished