Controlling Hollywood
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Author | : Matthew Bernstein |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780485300925 |
Explaining the major forces at play behind the making of Hollywood films, this text assesses how changing values have influenced censorship in Hollywood. The text also analyses the major cultural, social, legal and religious changes and their effect on Hollywood.
Author | : Matthew Alford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9781548084981 |
This is a book about secrecy, militarism, manipulation, and censorship at the heart of the world's leading democracy-and about those who try to fight them. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act National Security Cinema exclusively reveals that the national security state-led by the CIA and Pentagon-has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows. The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government has gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated and become more aggressive. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting films and franchises like Transformers, Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; military creation of bio-weapons; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11.
Author | : John W. Cones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book represents the most comprehensive critical analysis of the big picture in Hollywood with respect to how those whocontrol the institution gained and have maintained that control for its 100-year history. The book traces the evolution and development of specific tactics and strategies implemented by the upper level management of that controlling handful of major studio/distributors and explains the relationship between control of the financial side of the film business and the creative side. One important aspect of that control arises from the use of unfair, unethical, unconscionable, anti-competitive, predatory and illegal provisions in the distribution deal between film distributors and producers.
Author | : Thomas Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1988-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780671663261 |
In this harrowing, true account, Henderson lays bare the locker room legends, the wild partying, the rampant addiction and the unwritten rule of the pro sports world that anything goes--as long as you win the game. A tough, brutal, agonizing story . . .--Howard Cosell.P. Putnam.
Author | : John W. Cones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1996-12-01 |
Genre | : Motion picture industry |
ISBN | : 9781890341060 |
Author | : Carl Kerby |
Publisher | : New Leaf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1614580731 |
Hollywood has a world view, and it's coming to a television in your home soon-- and you may not even be aware of it! If you are only checking for ratings, you're missing a whole other level of humanism and anti-Christianity that is being slipped quietly and unobstrusively into your entertainment choices. Break Hollywood's grip on your entertainment choices-- and get tuned into its real agenda with this unique new book. A great format for an entertainment critique that is entertaining in itself. It will be popular with youth pastors, parents, and ministries.
Author | : Peter Decherney |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231159471 |
Beginning with Thomas Edison's aggressive copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits against YouTube, Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to influence and adapt to copyright law. Though much of Hollywood's engagement with the law occurs offstage, in the larger theater of copyright, many of Hollywood's most valued treasures, from Modern Times (1936) to Star Wars (1977), cannot be fully understood without appreciating their legal controversies. Peter Decherney shows that the history of intellectual property in Hollywood has not always mirrored the evolution of the law and recounts these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and culture.
Author | : Jim Nelson |
Publisher | : AMI Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781932270259 |
Despite dancing in his underwear in Risky Business, Tom Cruise now goes to greater and greater lengths to shield his private life from the public eye. Hollywood's Top Gun has protected the truth about his marriages, his divorces and his affairs - relentlessly defending himself against rumors that follow him to this day. Now Cruise Control puts you in the driver's seat and exposes the real man and untold stories behind the carefully crafted golden boy image.
Author | : William D. Romanowski |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195387848 |
In Reforming Hollywood, William Romanowski tells the long and complex story of the relationship between Protestants of all stripes--from Episcopalians to evangelicals--and the American film industry. Drawing on personal interviews and previously unexamined primary sources, he chronicles Protestant efforts to exert influence on the industry and use movies to promote the moral health of the nation. At the same time, Romanowski shows, mainline Protestants were surprisingly averse to censorship, which they saw as intruding upon individual conscience and antithetical to American democracy--of which they saw themselves as the guardians.
Author | : Steven J. Ross |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0691214646 |
This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness. Steven Ross documents the rise of a working-class film movement that challenged the dominant political ideas of the day. Between 1907 and 1930, worker filmmakers repeatedly clashed with censors, movie industry leaders, and federal agencies over the kinds of images and subjects audiences would be allowed to see. The outcome of these battles was critical to our own times, for the victors got to shape the meaning of class in twentieth- century America. Surveying several hundred movies made by or about working men and women, Ross shows how filmmakers were far more concerned with class conflict during the silent era than at any subsequent time. Directors like Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and William de Mille made movies that defended working people and chastised their enemies. Worker filmmakers went a step further and produced movies from A Martyr to His Cause (1911) to The Gastonia Textile Strike (1929) that depicted a unified working class using strikes, unions, and socialism to transform a nation. J. Edgar Hoover considered these class-conscious productions so dangerous that he assigned secret agents to spy on worker filmmakers. Liberal and radical films declined in the 1920s as an emerging Hollywood studio system, pressured by censors and Wall Street investors, pushed American film in increasingly conservative directions. Appealing to people's dreams of luxury and upward mobility, studios produced lavish fantasy films that shifted popular attention away from the problems of the workplace and toward the pleasures of the new consumer society. While worker filmmakers were trying to heighten class consciousness, Hollywood producers were suggesting that class no longer mattered. Working-Class Hollywood shows how silent films helped shape the modern belief that we are a classless nation.