Hollywood

Movies produced in Hollywood do not reflect America’s racial makeup. The majority of Hollywood films consist of completely white casts directed by white directors. Unfortunately, most multicultural Hollywood films struggle to obtain financing from big studios. Furthermore, scarcely any diverse films that receive funding ever receive nominations for awards. Indeed, Hollywood movies do not reflect the racial diversity of American audiences as evidenced by casts and directors, funding, and awards.…

superiority are sustained and reinforced in Hollywood through gender-wage gap and the underrepresentation of women on and off-screen in Hollywood. In-between these two main issues are the tying sub issues of an uncontrollable force, age, and the devaluation of female roles in Hollywood that amplifies male superiority and emphasizes gender bias, gender difference and gender inequality. Gender inequality as a product of gender differences is still existent in Hollywood maybe to a lesser extent…

us to the disused elevator shaft at the heart of the hotel where we would eventually board the ride. Once we were all seated, the distressed elevator box moved forward, while an eerie black and white movie played explaining what happened at the Hollywood Hotel many years ago. Eventually the foreboding film stopped and we were in complete darkness, suddenly a cold whoosh of air hit us and we were pressed into our seats, our rapid ascent began to slow, and as we reached the top of our parabola the…

started studying it in class. The way I define male gaze is a way that visual arts and literature depict women from a man’s point of view. Most Hollywood cinema is set up by males so that is one reason why women are perceived this way if there were more women in Hollywood cinema I am sure they would perceive women differently. Since more men are in Hollywood cinema women usually just exist for the pleasure of men. It’s usually always a pretty young woman that gets the lead roles. 2 movies that…

Gender and racial inequality is the disease that keeps a stronghold on society’s attempt to move towards equal rights. This problem is strongly demonstrated in American Cinema. Christina Hoag (2016) states in her article, Diversity in Hollywood, “White males still dominate virtually all aspects of [the film industry].” Recent events have led to the discovery of unfair wages between male and female actors to racism in today’s award shows. In years prior, laws had to be placed in order for women…

if Hollywood itself wrote it's own autobiography of their role in shaping the outcomes of the war. The desire to produce both an analytical reflection of how 1940’s Hollywood should be remembered as an industry within a historically accurate retelling of the film industry’s actions during the war is daunting in that the reader may find the history portion dry or the opinion sections unwarranted. Doherty manages to please both parties and factually romanticizes the necessary role Hollywood…

The Hollywood Ten were a group of screenwriters of which most were wrongfully put in jail and blacklisted during the Red Scare of the post World War II United States. They were put in jail and blacklisted for refusing to answer questions about their suspected affiliations with communists. Most of the Hollywood Ten’s accusations that were made; were not supported by enough evidence to incriminate them. Shortly after World War II the United States and the communist Soviet Union entered into a…

male to retake control of a situation. We also retried various points from Mulvey’s other resource on ‘Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema’ [4]. To create a style similar to that of classic hollywood films, we read up on David Broadwell’s chapters the Classic Hollywood style in ‘The Classical Hollywood Cinema’ [5], helping us to create the tension and adrenaline in the chase…

Hollywood Melrose Hotel was finished in the year 1927. The designs have the building was made by S Charles Lee who is also known for building Tower Theatre in Los Angeles, a Spanish-Romanesque-Moorish design(and for others countless buildings around California and Mexico). The building laid between the Historic Hotel and the Wilton & Gramercy Place.The Paramount Film Studios company owned the building for some time. Before Simonian became famous for his techniques with make-up he had just…

Colin Trevorrow one of the Hollywood director making a lot of money from the film, who have the support of other successful male director in the industry helps mentoring him that he successful make 1.6 billion dollars from direct and co-write the Jurassic world movie. Trevorrow discriminate women by saying that women do not have the desire to direct studio blockbusters and his film also featuring as a cold career woman. In fact, men were easily successful, whether to Hollywood studio, agents,…