Write a critique of a recent film which, in your view, conforms to the structural parameters of the classic Hollywood model of narrative construction. As Richard Maltby (1995:6) once quoted "If Hollywood is not a place, it is also not a time." We are forever going on about how Hollywood...

Film critics, industry flaks, and even some black entertainers have tumbled over themselves shouting the praises of Hollywood for picking three blacks for its top awards. They repeatedly toss around the words \"history-making\" to describe the feat. It isn\'t. In 1973, Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield...

Throughout the years of movie making, directors, producers, writers, and studios have developed certain cinematic formulas that are continually successful. One theme that has proved itself to be classic and timeless is the romantic love story. In this essay, I will explore the idea of the couple ...

There was once a time in Hollywood when the stars were truly \"larger than life\" both on the screen and off. An era where the greatest dramas, comedies, and tragedies were best performed behind the scenes. It is a time when the studios controlled all of Hollywood. The \"Golden Era\" is when the fac...

The Buck is Back .......and Baaaddderrr Than Ever! Scene 1: Outside a ticket box office in a suburban movie theater in 1967. About a dozen white couples patiently wait in line to purchase tickets to the "progressive" new film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner by Stanley Kramer. Cam...

Allegory 1. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. 2. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories....

'Excellence', 'popularity', 'typicality' - discuss the relative merits of each of these as a basis for the inclusion of films in a film historyAny attempt to study film history requires the consideration of films, which occur within the categories of excellence, popularity and typicality. They are ...

TV in the 1950's Reflected/Created Culture How many hours per week do you spend watching television? The average American child or adolescent spends 22-28 hours per week watching TV, which is more than any other activity other than sleeping. Did you know that there are more television sets in...