Cross-Pollination Between Hollywood and the World

World Cinema is to be thanked by Hollywood for many styles of film such as neo-realism, german expressionalism. Italy had movies concerning neo realism, focusing on poverty and depressions, while Japan's movies focused on samurai and killers. The French New Wave movement also introduced the idea of reminding the audience that the movie is in fact a movie. They utilized techniques such as jump cuts, low budgets.

Hollywood is responsable for the majority of shots used in films today. One example is the superimposition used in Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin, and the time passing by in a few shots in Citizen Kane provided influence for techniques for other movies. The actual making of movies, film techniques, and different angles.