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1 Film industry  



1.1  Asia  



1.1.1  South Asia  





1.1.2  East Asia  





1.1.3  Others  







1.2  Africa  





1.3  The Americas  





1.4  Europe  





1.5  Oceania  







2 Other  





3 See also  





4 References  














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 HollywoodinLos 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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Kollywood is also the name of Nepali cinema, based in the capital Kathmandu.

East Asia

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Others

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Africa

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The Americas

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

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