Howard Zinn Summary

Since the mid 19 century, Hollywood film production has been the most dominate movie cinema throughout the world. Hollywood has produced motion pictures because it was very innovating and creative for this particular period in the film production industry. This type of filming industry has become important to the American society, and there are beliefs that Hollywood has influential effects on a society as well. Howard Zinn was a professor and currently is a book publisher, a play, and musical writer. Howard soon realizes in his career, something seems to be odd about the way Hollywood makes films in history. He felt it was very important for the public to realize how Hollywood portrays the teachings of American history; not to mention, how
If illustrated, there are three distinct types of point of views in a story, which is first, second and third-person point of view. From the start of this article Zinn demonstrates a first-person point of view. Before he explains the events about Hollywood and history, Zinn wanted to give an intake from his point of view on how he personally felt about the film industry. For example, he said “It took me a while to realize that Hollywood isn’t going to make movies like the ones I imagined’ (Zinn 784). This is where the author states the beginning of his argument on how Hollywood portrays historical events. However, the point of view takes a turn in this article going from the first person to second person. Unlike the first person when using “I” or “me” he decides to add “you” throughout the rest of this article, so the audience is involved in his argument. Zinn started talking about a massacre the United States military caused in the Philippines; in addition, our known president Theodore Roosevelt calls this a victory for America. Howard said “Have you ever seen a movie in which Theodore Roosevelt was presented as a racist president? As an imperialist? As a supporter of massacres? And there he is, up on Mount Rushmore” (Zinn 787). This is where he involves the audience; in addition, he then asks the question to make
When the author uses a certain type of writing language that is visually descriptive it creates an image for the readers. Zinn started talking about the Revolutionary War in America, and thought about it would be a clever idea to tell the story of a regular working man and not schoolbooks. He started by giving some knowledge on the war, then said “It would be interesting to tell the story of the American Revolution from the viewpoint of an ordinary working man who hears the Declaration of Independence read to him from a balcony in Boston, promising freedom and equality and so on, and immediately is told that rich men can get out of service by paying several hundreds of dollars” (Zinn 785). Words that were used to start the image of the workingman was “who hears” and being “read to him from his balcony’ give a reader the point of view image. In addition, he mentions the Revolution War took place in Boston, so now a reader can paint a better image of the period for the working man reading from his