Essays on Hollywood

Independent American cinema has often been regarded as a form of response, and even resistance, to common tropes and expectations established by larger film studios that have dominated Hollywood for many years. In ‘Against Hollywood: American independent film as a critical cultural movement’ Sherry B….

Owen Wilson is a beloved man; he is an actor who has been a part of the childhood of multitudes thanks to his appearance in the Shanghai film series. His voice continues to entertain the childhoods of many with the Cars franchise. There are a…

Julianna Guill is a known American actress and has featured in lots of Television movies and series. She started her acting in the mid-2000s and today she is a known actress in the Hollywood movie industry and is making a name for herself. She is…

Hollywood period pieces often come in two distinct versions, both populated by a generic cast that looks the part. Version one consists of the good (and good-looking) moraled hero/-ine leading a disadvantaged people against an ancient evil (à la The Thirteenth Warrior). This version is…

The model has put in so many efforts in making a name for herself that she currently runs her own clothing line known as The Kill. Karrueche Tran as an actress has played both big and small roles and has won a few awards. Her…

Adrien Brody is a Hollywood actor and producer who gained worldwide recognition after playing Władysław Szpilman in the 2002 biographical drama film The Pianist. The movie didn’t only earn him an Academy Award for Best Actor but he became the youngest actor to ever win…

USA, California, West Hollywood Locally known as WeHo a trip to the heart of Los Angeles is a must while in California. West Hollywood might be small but thrives on a great, welcoming population and historic memorabilia of many famous artists, bands, and actors. Experience…

Is the world of cinema a ‘consumerist mosh pit’ (Sean Penn, 2012), dedicated to the art of making money since its inception? Literature has always played an important part in influencing the world of cinema, from Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946) to more recent adaptations,…

As a journalist with an emphasis in strategic communication, I wanted to direct my research paper on a topic that would be relevant towards my major. Hollywood films were not only a means of escapism for consumers of the Great Depression, but motion pictures also…

Put-On Accents Movies and TV shows produced in Hollywood are laden with characters performing accents. The actors themselves are not always responsible for the accents or the intention behind the accent. The writers of scripted media are another factor of put-on accents. Many performative scenarios…

Globalization and Movies Globalization is the spread of different political, economic and cultural trends to different parts of the world. (Stanford) American media has spread rapidly throughout the world, and at the forefront of the media blitz is film. Movies are an unbelievably important escape…

What elements make this an independent film and differentiate it from the Hollywood style? For starters, the film can be considered independent because of its $18,000,000 budget which is well under the average Hollywood budget. Although the film adapts certain Hollywood style such as having…

Changing the Cinematic World Like many others at the time, D.W. Griffith ventured to California in order to make feature length films at a great distance from Edison and the Trust. Having previously worked for Edison, he joins Biograph, the first studio in America and…

The Free Market is a Girl’s Best Friend When watching Marilyn Monroe perform a spectacle of a song such as “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes you get the distinct impression that there is a hammer hitting a nail repeatedly somewhere,…

Film, the seventh art, is the art of our time per excellence. Invented in the twentieth century, it did not substitute any other arts: painting, theater photography, music or literature; film lends itself particularly well to reflect, sometimes to anticipate, the air of time. It…