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Showing 1 to 20 of 256 for “"Hollywood"”.
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History, Hollywood, and the Crusades
This thesis discusses the relationship between film and history in the depiction of the Crusades. It proposes that film is a valuable historical tool for teaching about the past on several levels, namely the film’s contemporaneous views of the Crusades, and the history Crusades themselves. This …
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Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music
… residual influences to the fore at times in Hollywood movies. In the latter case, general cultural shifts in postmodern society, indicating the evolution of more actively engaged forms of reception and participation and a related desire for greater personal expression and participation among …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
<p>New Hollywood was foundationally a debatable period in the course of American film history, with distinctive characteristics of new directorial emergence and innovative film style. However, the contemporary industrial context suggested a prominent power of stardom to effectively sustain the …
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Hollywood and History : Spike Lee's "Malcolm X"
… "truthtelling" in historical films produced by Hollywood that are aimed at mainstream audiences. The concept of "truthtelling" has become further clouded by Hollywood filmmakers who are using documentary film techniques in their recreations of historical events and figures. This master's thesis …
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
The Hollywood Novel is an American regional fiction genre that treats characters working in the film industry either in Hollywood or with a Hollywood production company on location. Although pre-Hollywood film novels set in the eastern filmmaking capitals flourished as early as 1912, the Hollywood …
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Hollywood Forever: Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery
… Janet Gaynor, Mel Blanc, and Barbara La Marr, Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles has long served as a tourist attraction and a site of public memory. The touristic visit or pilgrimage to the cemetery can be, like the visit to a sanctioned memorial, a means of stitching oneself into the …
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Inside the Heart of the Hollywood Hooker
<p>This thesis defines the stereotype of the “hooker with a heart of gold” and discusses its use in mainstream American film from the 1960’s to the 1990’s including such films as <em>Butterfield 8, Pretty Woman, Leaving Las Vegas, Klute</em>, and <em>LA Confidential</em>. This thesis also …
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Staging Hollywood: Theater in a Mediatized Culture
"The nature of spectatorship in our mediatized society has also changed. The American consumers' collective interaction with media has created a ""participatory spectator"" who, influenced by their interactions with media forms, has learned to advance theatrical narratives beyond the threshold of …
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
This dissertation considers the work of German filmmakers who traveled to the United States and India between 1919 and 1936. This subject covers a wide range of documentary and feature films made throughout the interwar period, which are significant for two main reasons. First, through these films, …
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Eastern European Cinema vs. Hollywood: Bosnia War Films
… is to compare and contrast the films from the Hollywood and Eastern European arenas. This study will specifically examine the Hollywood blockbuster Behind Enemy Lines and the Serbian film, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame in contrast with one another. Each of these films creates a discourse which …
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Robert Zemeckis, Hollywood & the American Dream, 1978-1994
For two decades, Robert Zemeckis enjoyed an astonishing run of commercial success at the US box-office, with eight of the eleven movies he made between 1984 and 2004 becoming top ten hits in their respective years of release. These included two year-end number ones in Back to the Future in 1985 and …
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Changing the Definition of the Orient Through Hollywood
… the movie, by Kevin Kwan, the casting process of Hollywood, and the Pixar short film <em>Bao</em>, the orthodoxies of “the Orient” are challenged. The way that these pieces showcase Asian cultures that have then been commercialized to fit an American standard in media highlights the fetishization …
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E.U.A. e Hollywood : o desejo da projecção global
… a indústria cinematográfica americana sedeada em Hollywood tem desempenhado um papel preponderante na construção de imaginários hegemónicos (mas também heterogéneos) americanos, fazendo as suas produções parte integrante da cultura popular numa amplitude mundial. A contestação americana e …
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Manufacturing realisms : product placement in the Hollywood film
… issues of the Product Placement industry in the Hollywood film. It analyzes Product Placement as the embedding of an advertising message within a fictional one, as the insertion of a trademarked object into the realisms of filmic space, and as the incorporation of corporate remakings of the world …
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Militarism, Security, and War: The Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Superheroes
… icons of the early 21st century, the fictional Hollywood superhero, and asks what it does for us to take seriously that which is often deemed frivolous entertainment. Understanding the superhero as a political entity in and of itself, this project reveals the mutually constitutive relationship …
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Lessons of Vocal Coaching Shakespeare in Hollywood: A Production Analysis
… on a production of Ken Ludwig's Shakespeare in Hollywood directed by BT McNicholl and performed in the Raymond Hodges Theatre of Virginia Commonwealth University in November 2005. Chapter one covers my identification of the play's vocal and aural challenges; what I did to prepare for those …
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History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity in the Postwar Hollywood Epic
… epic—a film genre that flourished within Hollywood from 1949 to 1966 and which took as its subject the depiction of the ancient world—and reads this body of films as a mode of historical engagement. I argue that the historico-biblical epic takes the pressure of the terrifying possibility …
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The Ben-Hur Franchise and the Rise of Blockbuster Hollywood
… of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. As a result, Hollywood mindset and practices were heavily influenced by the marketing strategies and discourse surrounding these films, as many studios and filmmakers wanted to achieve the same, if not a higher, level of success. Thus, the current state of the …
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