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List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames

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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.[clarification needed]

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

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Asia

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South Asia

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  • Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai-based (formerly Bombay) Hindi-language film industry.

East Asia

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Others

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Africa

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The Americas

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  • 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

Europe

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Oceania

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Other

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Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film industry:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bollywood, Pollywood, Tollywood, and More – Film Industry Nicknames Around The World". April 25, 2017.
  2. ^ Sarkar, Bhaskar (2008). "The Melodramas of Globalization". Cultural Dynamics. 20: 31–51 [34]. doi:10.1177/0921374007088054. S2CID 143977618.
  3. ^ "Media for Development International – Promoting development through entertainment". mfditanzania.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  4. ^ "French film fare a la Hollywood". The Age. June 18, 2002. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  5. ^ "French cinema is back on vogue". The Christian Science Monitor. November 9, 2001. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  6. ^ "Gaul or Nothing". mycitypaper.com. November 8–15, 2001. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  7. ^ "Film; Going Sweet and Sentimental Has Its Rewards". The New York Times. October 28, 2001. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  8. ^ "Angel-A: Luc Besson Fails to Jump the Shark". Seattle Weekly. June 19, 2007. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  9. ^ "Kommunen säljer Hollyhammar". Vestmanlands Läns Tidning (in Swedish). April 23, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  10. ^ "Kia ora: Mosgiel", July 25, 2014, The New Zealand Herald