List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames explained
Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry – inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States. Some of the following names, however, did in fact exist before Hollywood.
The first Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932, was Tollywood,[1] referring to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, a neighbourhood in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India.[2] The most widely recognized Hollywood-inspired nickname is Bollywood, the informal name for the Hindi language film industry in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.
Film industry
Asia
South Asia
- Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai-based (formerly Bombay) Hindi-language film industry.
- Kollywood is the informal name derived from Kodambakkam in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the base of Tamil-language film industry.
- Tollywood may refer to:
- Pollywood may refer to:
- Lollywood refers to the Punjabi films of Pakistani film industry based in the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
- Bhojiwood refers to Bhojpuri language films of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, India.
- Dhallywood refers to the Bangladeshi film industry, based in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Chhollywood is the colloquial name given to the Chhattisgarhi language movie industry in Chhattisgarh, India.
- Helawood refers to Cinema of Sri Lanka.
- Mollywood may also refer to the Malayalam film industry in the state of Kerala, India.
- Sandalwood refers to the Kannada language film industry in Karnataka, India.
- Jollywood is the name given to Assamese language film industry based in Assam, India.
- Ollywood is the colloquial name given to the Odia language movie industry in Odisha, India.
- Kariwood refers to the Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Karachi, Pakistan.
- Dhollywood or Gollywood refers to the cinema of Gujarati Language in Gujarat, India.
- Coastalwood refers to Tulu cinema in the Tulunad region (Udupi, Mangalore of Karnataka, Kasaragod of Kerala), India.
East Asia
Others
Africa
The Americas
- Hollywood North refers to film and television production in Canada, especially the cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
- Mollywood may refer to the Mormon film industry in the United States.
- Tamalewood may refer to the active film industry of the state of New Mexico.
- Somaliwood refers to the film industry that has sprung up around the Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
- Y'allywood refers to film production in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Borikwood refers to the cinema of Borikén (Taíno name for Puerto Rico).
- Latinwood refers to the Latin American film industry
- Bogotawood refers to the Colombian cinema based in Bogotá.
- Chollywood refers to the Peruvian cinema. It is also spelled "Choliwood".
- Peruliwood refers to the film production in Peru.
- Mexiwood refers to the Mexican cinema.
- Sambawood refers to the Brazilian cinema based in Rio de Janeiro.
Europe
- Borehamwood has been home to several film and TV production studios since the 1920s; this earned it the nickname of "British Hollywood".
- Etyekwood is the informal name given in the media to Hungary's new Korda Studios in the wine-making village of Etyek near Budapest.
- Gaulywood is an informal name for France's film industry that has been in use since 2001.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Görliwood is the informal name for the German city of Görlitz, which frequently serves as a filming location.
- Hollyhammar was used to refer to a TV production facility in Hallstahammar, Sweden, in the 1990s.[9]
- Hollywood on the Tiber refers to when Rome's Cinecittà Studios was a popular choice for international (and domestic) film productions between the 1950s and 1960s.
- Olivewood is a metonym for Cyprus's efforts to mature into a high-value movie production destination.
- Pinewood, the name given because of the pine trees surrounding it. It is located in Buckinghamshire, England. This studio dates from the 1930s so its real name predates the +wood suffix.
- Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden.
- Valleywood is the informal name for the Dragon International film studio complex in Wales.
Oceania
Other
Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film industry:
- Dollywood is a theme park owned by Dolly Parton in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
- FC Hollywood is a nickname for FC Bayern Munich, used especially widely by German media in the 1990s, an era in which Bayern players were as likely to appear in gossip pages as in sports pages.
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Bollywood, Pollywood, Tollywood, and More – Film Industry Nicknames Around The World. April 25, 2017 .
- 10.1177/0921374007088054. Bhaskar. Sarkar. The Melodramas of Globalization. Cultural Dynamics. 2008. 20. 31–51 [34]. 143977618 .
- Web site: Media for Development International – Promoting development through entertainment. mfditanzania.com.
- Web site: French film fare a la Hollywood. The Age. June 18, 2002.
- Web site: French cinema is back on vogue. The Christian Science Monitor. November 9, 2001.
- Web site: Gaul or Nothing. mycitypaper.com. November 8–15, 2001.
- Web site: Film; Going Sweet and Sentimental Has Its Rewards. The New York Times. October 28, 2001.
- Web site: Angel-A: Luc Besson Fails to Jump the Shark. Seattle Weekly. June 19, 2007.
- News: Kommunen säljer Hollyhammar . . April 23, 2012 . sv . September 3, 2015 . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045424/http://vlt.se/nyheter/hallstasura/1.1627607-kommunen-saljer-hollyhammar . dead .
- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11297406 "Kia ora: Mosgiel"