What role do audiences play
What Role Do Audience Play
Rosa Rivarola
Rasmussen College
Author notes The essay is being presented on March 3rd. 2013 to Marek McKenna for G380/AMH3304 Section 01 Visions of America Since 1945
What role do audiences play in creating popular culture? Explain how Hollywood both manipulated and reflected the popular culture of the 1950's and 60's.
The role of the audience is to infuse the fire in the popular culture movement. It appears that Hollywood was caught between the wall and the blade in the 1950’s, on one side you had the dominant culture flexing their muscle to have Hollywood endorse this family ideal and help the containment effort and for no reason ignite any friction that would agitate the already impatient young adolescents. The late fifties teenagers would be a huge section of the consumer market. Hollywood manage to strike a rather windfall by agreeing to post announcement warning of the misconduct of the characters and at the end of the showing they would have a message for a figure of authority like the police or politician warning about the dangers of inconformity and change.
Hollywood in a very financially wise move, bank their choice on the boomers and they did not failed them. The movies of the fifties ignited the fuel of change what was to come in the next decades. There were many movies that gained acclaim because of the topic and the questions it raised on the idea of what conformed to the life of a family unit.
Hollywood managed to bring to the screens what was happening in our daily lives and we needed to own it and learn how to deal with the incredible changes that were coming in the next fifty years.
Elizabeth Taylor was the subject of a book written by M. G. Lord , the authors objective was to prove how Ms Taylor helped push the feminist movement with her performances the films that she chose to make. The book goes to site her entire history in a chronological order and show how the statement is true. It is
Rosa Rivarola
Rasmussen College
Author notes The essay is being presented on March 3rd. 2013 to Marek McKenna for G380/AMH3304 Section 01 Visions of America Since 1945
What role do audiences play in creating popular culture? Explain how Hollywood both manipulated and reflected the popular culture of the 1950's and 60's.
The role of the audience is to infuse the fire in the popular culture movement. It appears that Hollywood was caught between the wall and the blade in the 1950’s, on one side you had the dominant culture flexing their muscle to have Hollywood endorse this family ideal and help the containment effort and for no reason ignite any friction that would agitate the already impatient young adolescents. The late fifties teenagers would be a huge section of the consumer market. Hollywood manage to strike a rather windfall by agreeing to post announcement warning of the misconduct of the characters and at the end of the showing they would have a message for a figure of authority like the police or politician warning about the dangers of inconformity and change.
Hollywood in a very financially wise move, bank their choice on the boomers and they did not failed them. The movies of the fifties ignited the fuel of change what was to come in the next decades. There were many movies that gained acclaim because of the topic and the questions it raised on the idea of what conformed to the life of a family unit.
Hollywood managed to bring to the screens what was happening in our daily lives and we needed to own it and learn how to deal with the incredible changes that were coming in the next fifty years.
Elizabeth Taylor was the subject of a book written by M. G. Lord , the authors objective was to prove how Ms Taylor helped push the feminist movement with her performances the films that she chose to make. The book goes to site her entire history in a chronological order and show how the statement is true. It is
References: Suddenly Last summer (1959) Colombia Pictures http://popculture2.abcclio.com.ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/Search/Display/1461632?terms=suddenly+last+summer http://popculture2.abcclio.com.ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/Search/Display/1360263?terms=suddenly%20last%20summer The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice M. G. Lord 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/what-elizabeth-taylor-did-for-womens-rights.html?pagewanted=all