![]() ![]() This they achieve through a combination of ideological populism, emotional stimulation, impressive spectacle, and the calculated minimisation of potentially objectionable elements, such as sex, violence, and excessive socio-cultural specificity. I will argue that Hollywood family films are designed to transcend normative barriers of age, gender, race, culture and even taste they target the widest possible audiences to maximise commercial returns, trying to please as many people, and offend as few, as possible. How have ‘family films’ become so globally dominant? One answer is that Hollywood’s international power facilitates the global proliferation of its products, but this explanation, in isolation, is insufficient. Since the 1970s, Hollywood family films have been the most lucrative screen entertainments in the world, and despite their relativelyunexplored status in academic film criticism and history, I will argue that the format is centrally important in understanding mainstream Hollywood cinema. ![]() ![]() "This thesis is the first in-depth, historical study of Hollywood’s relationship with the ‘family audience’ and ‘family film’. ![]()
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