Hollywood

The Player (Robert Altman), the main character Griffin Mills, a wealthy movie executive, murders a writer, David Kahane, whom he believes to be terrorizing him after not producing Kahane’s movie. Griffin represents the kind of entitlement seen in Hollywood, he makes demands he has no right to be making, he cheats on his girlfriend, and the worst offense : he walks into Bicycle Thieves only to catch the last 5 minutes, and then has the audacity to suggest a remake where the message of economic…

an intelligent young woman that was suppressed by the image Hollywood branded her with. One may find it very hypocritical when the girl poets fell for the “silly clichés of Hollywood romance” (93), expecting a man to accompany Marilyn Monroe in Strand Used Books. The girl poets appeared to follow the Hollywood propaganda surrounding Marilyn Monroe and forgetting that Marilyn Monroe possessed an identity of her own apart from Hollywood. Society plays a major role in “Three Girls”. Society is…

Movies were America’s form of visual entertainment before the invention of TV. Today, movies are seen as a lucrative and popular media industry. However, movies make less money than newspapers, television, and publishing. They are expensive, and they do not promise a return of profit. The technology behind movies had a long evolution. It first started with the invention of the photographic gun camera. This camera was used by Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge. These men worked on…

the influx of information coming in from the front in Vietnam reached the United States. Interestingly enough, the lack of censorship policies during the Vietnam War did not, one would assume, lead to an increase in narrative war films—instead, Hollywood remained relatively…

reads like a critique of contemporary Hollywood. Lorde touches on the subject of age which is interesting, because although intersectionality has been a significant part of this class all the other authors including Davis seem to omit the importance of age. I really would like to know why that is, as women are discriminated against on the bases of age far more than men are. This made me think of the actress Helen Mirren, who stated that producers in Hollywood were encouraging her to dye her…

get approval of their marriage. The main thing to look at, was that the fiancé meeting the parents was a man named John Prentice and he was black and the woman was named Joanne Drayton and she was white. Since this movie was heading into the “New Hollywood”, where films had more violence, sex, racial issues, and stronger language, the interracial relationship fit just right in. Then also within the movie, the interracial couple had some relationship to college, and there was quite a few young…

are in the media today, women in the 1920s wanted to change the way women looked in everyday life. It was a revelation to see a woman in a film, so it became popular to look like the female celebrities that had made it on to the big screen in the Hollywood cinematic universe. Women would go out with shorter dresses/skirts they would also cut their hair into a short 'bob' kind of hairstyle which is so much different from the typical women of the Victorian era. It was considered conservative…

forwards. Trying to putting in words how and when a flashforward or flashback happen was very difficult. However, I did have a favorite topic I choose. My favorite topic was the gender pay gap in Hollywood. I chose it because I was interested in the topic and wanted to read more about how women in Hollywood are effected by the gender pay gap. One thing I learned this semester when choosing a topic is to know your limits and think…

Real change takes time. It is not for the impatient or hurried. Hollywood is no exception. Gender inequality is rampant in film careers in Hollywood. For screenwriters, we appear to be in the midst of change. As Sherry Lansing broke through the celluloid ceiling in 1980 when she became the first woman studio head, “female screenwriters appear to have made a breakthrough over the last three years, with an unusually high representation in the top 20 UK independent films (37%) and profitable UK…

Fact to Fiction; ‘12 Years A Slave’ Analysis Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s episode of ‘Fact to Fiction’, where we review the latest Hollywood blockbusters on how accurately they turn fact, into fiction. As always, I’m your host, Zodie Bolic. On tonight’s show, we will be analysing the portrayal of Solomon Northup in the movie ‘12 Years A Slave’, based on Northup’s besting selling memoir of the same name. In ‘12 Years A Slave’, Solomon Northup, a 33 year old free black man, is kidnapped…