stars are made in Hollywood‚ but also the place of poverty‚ corruption and crime. The many faces of Los Angeles are captured in Truman Capote’s narrative essay “Hollywood”. The essay was published in the collection Local Color from 1950. The story is about Truman Capote’s holiday trip to Hollywood in December. The story takes place in a plane‚ where Truman Capote is on his way to L.A. He is sitting besides Thelma‚ a young‚ black‚ woman‚ who are about to make a living in Hollywood‚ and hopefully becomes
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The Contemporary Hollywood Film Soundtrack: Professional Practices and Sonic Styles Since the 1970s …………………………………. 2 Abstract Since the 1970s‚ the soundtrack in Hollywood has come of age as a complex and sophisticated site of cinematic art. Greater combinations of sounds expressing a wider spectrum of tones‚ textures and volumes can be heard at the movies more than ever before‚ while behind the scenes‚ the number of personnel producing them has grown considerably. Moreover‚ this era has witnessed
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Bollywood v. Hollywood The expectations for Hollywood are quite high in talent. Nevertheless so are they for Bollywood. Bollywood is the same for the most part‚ but just consists of mostly Indians. Hollywood on the other hand is consisted of genres that include multiple races and culture in their moneymaking films. These two film industries on the contrary have somewhat different talents. Bollywood‚ to a certain extent‚ involves more dancing‚ singing‚ and longer movies. For Hollywood‚ movies are
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The Pantages in one of the many outstanding landmarks of Hollywood. In the past‚ it has been a movie house‚ with live vaudeville acts between features. For ten years the Pantages Theatre was the habitation of the Academy Awards Presentations. The Pantages was primarily a movie house for several decades. In 1949‚ Howard Hughes acquired the Pantages Theatre‚ changing its name to the RKO Pantages Known as “The Biggest Night in Hollywood”‚ The Academy Awards ceremonies took place at the Pantages each
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- Oxford Blues‚ and the romantic comedy-drama film - About Last Night‚ received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star of Rob Lowe on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television was dedicated in front of the Musso & Frank Grill (restaurant located on Hollywood Boulevard)‚ where the 51 year old actor‚ talked humorously that he "drank many martinis in a previous career." The Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony‚ was also attended by Rob Lowe’s longtime friend - the American actress
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Hollywood‚ Bollywood... Ah! Ha! Nollywood! Life as a way of taking shape on its own if will fail to straighten its bends and correct its mistakes. In the movie world Hollywood is no stranger to the masses and the youngest of children. Over the years‚ Hollywood has grown to surpass the imagination of the world‚ creating wonders‚ taking the movie-lovers to space and light years back in time. According to Wikipedia‚ Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles‚ California‚ United States of America. Before
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Luc Brubaker November 4‚ 2014 The golden age of Hollywood may have ended in the 1960s‚ but it seems Hollywood’s not-so golden attitudes about gender and races are still stuck in that era. The 2014 Hollywood Diversity Report presented by Dr. Darnell Hunt examines the gender and race of actors‚ directors and writers of film and television. It reveals an industry that is still dominated by white men‚ with women and minorities dramatically underrepresented both on and off screen. Through the five theories
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Hollywood is amongst the top in power of the media empire in the United States‚ the productions that come out‚ become believed representations of the audiences that watch them‚ bringing down many that are shown in those productions. With audiences that are more than majority a darker color‚ than what are represented in Hollywood films‚ it brings to attention just how much of a problem it comes be. Minorities should be just part of the Hollywood creation‚ holding a social responsibility to derail
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The Classical Hollywood Narrative Style is the most commonly used technique in film creation. The term was coined by David Bordwell‚ Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson in their study of Hollywood films between the years of 1917 to 1960. A film in this style would follow a set of rules which are unwritten but commonly accepted amongst film makers. This type of film is structured narratively with a clearly defined conflict which is introduced early in the movie‚ a problem arises and the characters
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their ownership in movie theaters in a decision now known as the Paramount decision. Hollywood’s reaction to the financial consequences of this decision along with a heavily reinforced postwar pro-American sentiment led to what is now known as the Hollywood blacklist. I believe the impact of these two courtroom decisions was a mass restructuring of how films are made in order to maximize distribution‚ rebrand the types of films being produced and to cull existing talent‚ all to turn a larger profit
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