ABSTRACT
Hollywood is an expression of capitalist power because its dominant firms, in their pursuit of differential accumulation, are compelled to delimit the possibilities of the cinema through the strategic sabotage. Strategic sabotage is used to predetermine, as much as possible, the place of new social creation in an instituted field of social significations. The creative labour of the Hollywood film industry is still a part of our story about risk reduction, but this story also includes the institutional creation of ideology through the repression of meaning and the control of the social behaviour. Analysing the political economic dimensions of the Hollywood force us situates the cultural and political value of filmmaking against the goals of the film business. Moreover, the political economic dimensions of Hollywood give us the means to judge whether the business control of the industry is legitimate.
