ABSTRACT
After World War II, legal, technological, and social developments converged on the Hollywood film industry, undermining the economic foundation of the studio system. The arrival of television in the early 1950s took a big slice out of movie attendance figures. All of the market developments and social and political forces against which Hollywood management had to fight had a profound effect on the longstanding struggle between entrepreneur and artist. The Hollywood center, especially in attitudes, is situated well to the left of that of the American public. Symbolic of the change in the Hollywood structure of power and values is a change in criteria that serve as the basis for judging which directors, motion pictures, and so on, now receive academy awards. The present status of Hollywood opinion notwithstanding, at least two developments in the 1980s raised the possibility that the studios may again come to monopolize the motion picture business.
