Cinema of the United States. The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known, metonymically, as Hollywood), has been a significant influence on the global film industry since the early 20th century. Classical Hollywood cinema, a style of film making developed from the 1910s, is still typical of most films made in America today. While French filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumi??re, are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. With more than 600 English-language films released annually as of 2017, it has produced the fourth-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India, Japan, and China. While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not directly part of the Hollywood system. Consequently, Hollywood has also been considered...
