Essays on Hollywood

“Man of Steel” by director Zack Snyder is a Hollywood blockbuster released in 2013 that tells a story of one of the most famous superheroes ever: Superman. This movie was filmed as a re-launch of the DC Comics franchise, and since it was Christopher Nolan...

An Analysis of The Differences Between the Twenty-First Century Hollywood Musical and The Classical Hollywood Musical Introduction During the past few years, the Hollywood musical has witnessed remarkable popularity as a result of the release of various widely-acclaimed films, including Moulin Rouge!, Chicago, Mamma Mia...

Many American celebrates recently appeared in an anti-gun public services announcement, asking Americans to demand that there elected officials to create a plan to stop gun violence. In the video, there were many very famous celebrates such as Cameron Diaz, Paul Rudd, Beyoncé, Chris Rock...

What we watch on screen in the course of a film is the culmination of the skills of artists: writers, directors, animators, actors. When a book is made into a film, screenwriters may use aspects of literary design, which have the ability to alter the...

The Hollywood Blacklist The Hollywood Blacklist was initiated in November 1947. It involved the denial of employment to actors, directors, musicians, and screenwriters who sympathized with the communists or had any ties with them. The events leading to the initiation of this list were 10...

Concert Composers in Hollywood’s Golden Age and Citizen Kane In chapter 13 of Reel Music, Hickman discusses the development of cinema music through Hollywood’s Golden Age and how it relates to concert music. Hickman explains that concert composers didn’t often write music for films, but...

Introduction Society’s view of women creates a phenomena of women being perceived as weaker and being oppressed. Sexism creates the divide between women’s rights and men’s rights and women’s stereotypes and men’s stereotypes. The rights that women have had to fight for, and those that...

Hollywood represents luxury. Red carpets, fancy clothing and expensive jewelry appear alongside stars of the movie industry. Despite this luxury, the films produced also represent the population and the lives of everyday people. When watching award shows, such as the Golden Globes, which aired on...

After World War I, Hollywood took the place of European countries at the forefront of film production – and would never leave this position again. However, it turns out that at that time, Hollywood walked with the image well scorched before the rest of the...

People all around the globe consume the showbiz industry media products, namely movies, on a regular basis. Such movies bear a massive role in our lives and help shape our ideas about social, social, economic and governmental issues. Films are peppered with information that reaches...

James Dean is one Hollywood actor that time has not been able to erase his face and memories from the hearts of many. It is over sixty years the cold hands of death snatched him away yet his memories still lingers and Hollywood has not...

In the wake of #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo, people were eager to applaud the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, informally known as the Academy, for their progress in diversity after releasing nominations that featured many black and female nominees. However, many felt that this...

Introduction I was raised up with Harry Potter and Snow White, so the international cinema with its British and American movies were and still one of the powerful elements which influence my personality. Both the US and the UK are nations of movie lovers, of...

Hollywood has always had a love affair with dancing. That includes everything from Ballroom dancing to break dancing. Great music combined with talented dancers and flamboyant costumes makes for a hit whether it’s Standard Ballroom dancing, Latin American dance, jazz or disco. In some movies...