Telling a story‚ any story‚ is much more than just clever words. A good story typically requires very little effort‚ even if it is told poorly‚ to garner audiences. However‚ there are a few that may require additional components‚ such as creativity‚ vision and lots of imagination to make it interesting. Hollywood has mastered these elements… Imagery‚ artistry and resourcefulness are useful elements to spark interest‚ particularly when bringing a story to life. The documentary‚ Hollywood Styles as
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turn introduced a wave of sensationalist tabloids and the launch of a new craze: celebrities. Tabloids like the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mission prohibited photo spreads [sometimes real‚ sometimes manipulation] of stars like Rudolph Valentino with eminence success. One reason that it was so successful was that it reduced the manpower it took to run the press and all though movie stars sure loved those new presses. These days‚ our lives are much easier than before‚ from new inventions
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were produced annually. Incorporating sound into movies was still an experimental feature‚ but the demand for movies and the opportunities to make money encouraged studios to produce “talkies”‚ or films with sound‚ for release. During this era‚ Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin rose to fame‚
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Research paper: The Disenchanted F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work were in a knot from the start; his profession spanned one of the most tumultuous eras of the century‚ and from the very start he was the creator and the victim of the new culture of celebrity which accompanied the rise of modern technology. Budd Schulberg masterfully created a character that closely and in many ways represents Fitzgerald in his later years; Manley Halliday is that character. “His mind’s eye‚ incurably bifocal
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Cardel Blalock 5/4/17 English The Jazz Age: What is the Jazz Age ?The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s ‚ ending with the Great Depression in which jazz music and dance styles became popular in the United States. Despite of social and economic upheaval ‚ the 1900s prospered as a whole. Society was experiencing a
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the film industry underwent a massive transformation during the 1920s‚ with the emergence of the silent film. Warner Brothers Pictures was also incorporated in the early 1920s. Some prominent movie stars of the ’20s include: Charlie Chaplin‚ Rudolph Valentino‚ and Greta Garbo. There is a change in almost every aspect of society‚ which makes for one of the most exciting eras of American
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Before World War I the country remained culturally and psychologically rooted in the past‚ but in the 1920s America seemed to breakaway from these attachments and usher in the birth of modern America This dramatic break between America’s past and future was shaped by the evolution of technology‚ sports‚ entertainment‚ and women’s roles. Many of the trends that converged to make the twenties distinct had been building for years. The 1920s were a period of technological change that transformed the
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the most popular club in Harlem to hear Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington. Al Jolson’s‚ “the jazz singer”‚ was the first movie to ever be made with sound in 1927. Before there were only silent films which were dominated by Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino. Also‚ people enjoyed illegal clubs called‚ speakeasies‚ which allowed
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Americans were more informed with what was going on around them and what styles were “in” for that season. Rudolph Valentino was the heart throb that played in “The Sun of the Sheik‚” and big band music with its heavy African American influence was widely popular. Flappers is a term used in the 1920’s by women who decided to test the way women should look and act‚
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The Jazz Age Jazz. The style of music that just makes you want to dance. The blues‚ a kind of music that makes you want to cry. The 20’s were famous for great jazz and blues entertainers such as Louis Armstrong‚ Bessie Smith‚ and George Gershwin. The most famous of all though is Duke Ellington. Duke Ellington playing at the Cotton Club. The Duke as he is also known as is a Jazz legend. Ellington is a pianist‚ a composer and a bandleader. The Duke started playing professionally at the age of 17
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