The Decade When Hollywood Cracked Open – In Praise of the 2010s

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen There’s little doubt that the decade just ending in Hollywood was the most consequential in living memory. We all know that the entire entertainment business was reshaped in the last 10 years in multiple ways: DVDs definitively went away, major studios consolidated, Netflix became a force and streaming became the new form of distribution. But beyond those momentous changes, another more subtle reality shifted. The collapse of the studio system — the seven major studios that for 50 years held all the power in entertainment — and the influx of technology giants who dwarfed the likes of Sony and Paramount, coincided with a stunning cultural shift. After decades of stories dominated by a straight white male sensibility, suddenly a chorus of new voices were everywhere, telling all manner of unconventional stories. “Black Panther” in 2018 redefined the superhero movie with a predominantly African-American cast and a story set in Africa. Guillermo del Toro in 2017 told a sci-fi fantasy love story in the Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” that was in fact...

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