Borges and the classical Hollywood cinema.(Style in Cinema)(fiction writer)

From: Style | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo | Copyright information

Borges's preference for Hollywood movies is a constant in his writings about cinema. The North American mode of film production that Borges so much admires has been given the name "classical Hollywood cinema" by film theorists, who have defined it as a standard form or style that reigned supreme between 1915 and 1938 and which is still influential today. Classical cinema was as much the result of the studio system as of the personality of the film director. Borges finds similarities f...

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