Australian film industry with the Hollywood studio system. You will need to approach this in relation to finance/funding structures. “Show me the money!” When Tom Cruise’s character exclaims this in Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire‚ audiences can now look upon it with a slight sense of irony. One of the most notorious Hollywood catch phrases of our time can succinctly sum up the state of Hollywood’s production system in one line. In comparison to Hollywood and its vast output of film media
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Black Images in Classical Hollywood Cinema until the advent of the Civil Rights Era The word “Hollywood” must not be confused with the place in Los Angeles‚ where the movie industry was established around 1920‚ but it can be understood as a state of mind‚ regarding production techniques‚ themes and its sociology. As we know there was a movie industry set in New Jersey’s Fort Lee well before the companies moved over to Hollywood‚ with its better movie-making conditions regarding weather and backdrop
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Norma Jeane Baker born in LA‚ California‚ soon transformed into the blondest‚ biggest sex symbol Hollywood has yet to cross paths with. Marilyn Monroe belonged to the public from the moment she stepped onto the screen and the voluptuous‚ 50’s goddess knew it. In combination with Monroe’s fascinating personal life and alluring pout and sensuality‚ the bombshell left an ever-staying impact on Hollywood‚ still yet to be outshined by any sex icons to come. Baptized Norma Jeane Baker‚ the soon
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Robert Rodriguez- A Latin American Director who has been “Hollywood-ized” Robert Rodriguez’s first film‚ El Mariachi‚ is a cult classic to many and the first of a long line of other successful movies for this talented director. El Mariachi captured the attention of many with its large amount of violence and shockingly low budget. With a dirt cheap budget and a first time director‚ this film did not have high expectations‚ yet it provided an entertaining story that showed the evolution of a young
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famine‚ hunger and poverty throughout Somalia. As the US enters in to perform their ‘humanitarian’ acts‚ the mission goes quickly wrong as the Aidid declare war on western troops. As a Hollywood produced film‚ Black Hawk Down helps to portray an image of “Cowboy Humanitarianism.” In films involving Africa‚ Hollywood constructs an image that Western civilizations are humanitarians that simply want to provide charitable acts to the ‘uncivilized’ Africa. Films like Black Hawk Down‚ present an overall
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This essay will explore the ‘problem of masculinity’ and the way Classical Hollywood cinema invests and deals with the image of the male body‚ drawing from the analysis of examples from Top Hat (1935) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Steve Neale argues that ‘it is very rare to find analyses that seek to specify in detail‚ in relation to particular films or groups of films‚ how heterosexual masculinity is inscribed and the mechanisms‚ pressures‚ and contradictions that inscription may involve’
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05 Countercultures 1) ‘Age of Aquarius’ [pic] ‘Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In’ From Hair: The American Tribal Love-rock musical (music by Gail MacDermot‚ lyrics by James Rado & Gerome Ragni‚ 1969). When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius The age of Aquarius Aquarius! Aquarius! Harmony and understanding Sympathy and trust abounding No more
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lead to Hollywood producing what some thought of as a constant succession of sordid and immoral films; films that revolved around crime‚ sin and infidelity. This led to the creation of ‘the production code’ “adopted in 1930 to roll back the profligacy of the 1920s and Set a reformed America again on the path of righteousness in the new harsher decade” (Doherty‚ p 6). Throughout this essay I will examine the ways in which the regulations the production code put in place affected Hollywood narratives
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the world knows about Hollywood‚ and Bollywood is bigger than Hollywood in terms of movies produced‚ though
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intend to explore how East European drawing and animation styles can be successfully incorporated into Western cinema‚ as there have not been too many animations or live-action movies that liberate themselves from the conventions of Hollywood. The ones that do subvert Hollywood conventions may either stand out with praise from critics or alienate the audience. This dissertation will examine a few of the most influential European animation artists‚ including Pyetrovich Ivanov–Vano‚ a Soviet animator and
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