ABSTRACT
Finally, in constructing alternatives to Hollywood, we must recognize that the historical centrality of that mode creates a constant and complex interchange with other modes. No absolute, pure alternative to Hollywood exists. … You can trace a Hollywood technical process such as back projection from its classical use to its cubistic possibilities in films like The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968). Likewise, Hollywood’s mode of production continues to exert a power that can be opposed only by a knowledge of its past and its functions. The historical and aesthetic importance of the classical Hollywood cinema lies in the fact that to go beyond it we must go through it.
