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    Hollywood History

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    May 2010 [pic] [pic] Foreword 1. The beginning of Hollywood 2. The name ”Hollywood” 3. The movie of S. Porter - “the father of the Story Film” 4. The Hollywood sign 5. The growing film industry 6. The new Hollywood 7. The beginning of the Academy Awards 8. The Golden Age of Hollywood 9. Hollywood during the War Years 10. Stars Conclusion Bibliography Foreword I have always been fascinated by the Hollywood’s world, a world of mixture between reality

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    Movie Industry/Hollywood Hollywoodland, known as the most recognizable film industry in the world from the 1920’s to now, slowly went from black and white silent movies to colorful motion pictures in the screens. This lead to a major production of movies along the road and introduction to big world famous stars that helped with the expansion of the entertainment business. Hollywood became an overnight success during the 1920’s by making improvements in the film and motion picture industry. Some

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    HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM AND GLOBALIZATION This work has shown the broader assessment of the film history and some of the effect that Hollywood has brought on American’s social, economic, cultural structures and also political. We find that Hollywood began just as a tool or platform where labor leaders would voice their concerns and preach unionism and also cultural product that is popular among the workers and also immigrants living in urban centers. In fact, the popularization of

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    from early Hollywood and the Civil war finish the evil chore of what’s right from wrong. Many people are trying to reverse the impacts of these historical hits. We realize the truth of black identity through one historic document better than many others of the past, film. In Julie Dashs film, Daughters of the dust it leaves these false identities behind and brings out the truth of identity from each character individually. Julie Dash’s unique film uses new innovative ways to explain a history and true

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    “The desire for a sense of motion, action, and narrative (cinema’s roots) stretch all the way back to prehistory with cave drawings… In fact, the entire history of human accomplishment in the visual arts seems to reveal a deep seated desire to represent time, space, and action visually- and as vividly as possible”. (Lewis 5) Throughout history, people have exhibited a need to be entertained and a need for hope or something to look forward to. Without anything to live for, something to strive for

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    Range Rover Analysis

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    The Myth of The Range Rover and Hollywood In Hollywood you're not considered a prominent figure, until you drive a Range Rover. For this reason, the Range Rover is the perfect commodity to exemplify a Hollywood myth. A myth as Roland Barthes describes in Mythologies, is a kind of speech, in which the history of an object is distorted to signify a new modern history that feels completely natural to modern society. The Range Rover has been appropriated into Hollywood by celebrities and is predominantly

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    should proud of the advantages that asian culture have. In the way of education, they should open up film school to the asian student and provide import aspect in filmmaking as an example, theater club, equipment house and a qualified lecturer. This way can produce the best filmmaker and create a masterpiece from asian culture to the world. Some of the film student makes James Wan a famous malaysian-chinese-australian filmmaker who famous in the Hollywood as an idol. Even though he is not in martial

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    of “In Living Color: Race and American Culture”, who depicts that many people are assuming the exclusion is over in United States, however, she argues that racism is continuing to modern society through the mass media that creates of the popular culture, and it brings many social problems on stereotyping ethnic characters. Jessica Haredorn, author of “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck”, also describes that how the Asian women are stereotyping in Hollywood, “If we are ‘good,’ we are childlike, submissive

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    Ap European Film Essay

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    the industry in two: Hollywood, which is popular entertainment, the "norm" or the "classic", and Europe, which is art; this is seen in the study of film as a cultural phenomenon, film theory, where the studies are well-stablished in Britain and the

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    Rover and Hollywood In modern culture, Hollywood elites and celebrities have appropriated the Range Rover as their daily driving vehicles which signifies not only their wealthiness, but their prestigiousness. The Range Rover is predominantly owned by upper class celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z and David Beckham, which makes the Range Rover the perfect commodity to exemplify a Hollywood myth. A myth as Roland Barthes describes in Mythologies, is a kind of speech, in which the history of an object

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