Hollywood: history, origins, stereotype

Thèmes abordés

Hollywood, history, stereotypes, Hollywood Signs, The Academy Of Motion Picture, movies, cinema industry, Walk of Fame, Golden Globes, Oscars, Hollywood Boulevard, celebrities

Résumé du document

We all know Hollywood; and for us, it's a famous place that we liked to visit. When we talk about Hollywood, the first words that come to our mind is stars, cinema, glamour, shiny, great weather etc. but, like all the famous place, not many people know WHAT IT IS really. We see Hollywood on screen, films, music video but nobody knows what is Hollywood, its story, the way it began and things like that. So we wanted to talk about the subject to make you know what Hollywood really is, its deepest origins and the reality of Hollywood!

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[...] But there are only 700 seats so it's first-come first- serve. The ceremony is hosted by a different celebrity each year paid 15 000$ for the night. The name come from Margaret Henrick, an Academy librarian, who, while looking at the statue, said does it look like my uncle Oscar?”. It was in 1931. The Golden Globes: Famous American ceremony sometimes confused with the Oscars. The main difference is that the Golden Globes doesn't only focus on the motion pictures but includes TV series. [...]

[...] In the beginning of the year 1931" Universal Picture produced three films, “Frankenstein", "Doctor Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" and “Dracula" .The success of these three works pushed the company to produce more and more films about monsters. It was the universal monster's period with films like " The Mummy"," The Invisible Man". Peplos The first peplos appeared in the 30's at this time this type of films were called fiction. The peplos is an historical fiction and set in classical times. "The Robe" was the first peplos in US in 1953. The glamour was also there. [...]

[...] On the other hand, the economic level wasn't good for the Big Cinema . The diffusion of the American's cinema worldwide allowed to export the “American Dream”. The western, the peplos and the musical comedies were still triumphing in the cinematographic industry. Today, cult films like" Singing In The Rain" an American musical film in 1952 or "High Noon" the same year. The macabre film was in decline at this period. The science fiction directed alien invasions this films reflected the anxiety because of the War. [...]

[...] Stars don't run in streets . Not everything is rose and perfect .Don't need to be rich VII- Facts about Hollywood VIII- END The reason we chose this subject We all know Hollywood; and for us, it's a famous place that we liked to visit. When we talk about Hollywood, the first words that come to our mind is stars, cinema, glamour, shiny, great weather etc. but, like all the famous place, not many people know WHAT IT IS really. [...]

[...] The 20th Century Fox turned up in 1917. Europeans in the place In the 20's, film studios sometimes invited very expensive European actors and filmmakers for studios, like Fritz Lang, who directed" Metropolis" , to improve the aesthetic qualities of the Hollywood films transfer of the culture between the European films and Hollywood films: a lot of mixing, naturalization and change of identities for example Marelene Dietrich, a German woman naturalized in 1939. In 1927, the companies created The Academy Of Motion Picture. [...]