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Author: Matthew Bernstein
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780485300925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplaining 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: John W. Cones
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Matthew Alford
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-27
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781548084981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Thomas Henderson
Publisher:
Published: 1988-09
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780671663261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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:
Published: 1996-12-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781890341060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl Kerby
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1614580731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHollywood 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
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0231159471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning 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
Published: 2003-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781932270259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite 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
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0195387848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Gerardo Marti
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0813545633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Christianity, as with most religions, attaining holiness and a higher spirituality while simultaneously pursuing worldly ideals such as fame and fortune is nearly impossible. So how do people pursuing careers in Hollywood's entertainment industry maintain their religious devotion without sacrificing their career goals? For some, the answer lies just two miles south of the historic center of Hollywood, California, at the Oasis Christian Center. In Hollywood Faith, Gerardo Marti shows how a multiracial evangelical congregation of 2,000 people accommodates itself to the entertainment industry and draws in many striving to succeed in this harsh and irreverent business. Oasis strategically sanctifies ambition and negotiates social change by promoting a new religious identity as "champion of life"-an identity that provides people who face difficult career choices and failed opportunities a sense of empowerment and endurance. The first book to provide an in-depth look at religion among the "creative class," Hollywood Faith will fascinate those interested in the modern evangelical movement and anyone who wants to understand how religion adapts to social change.
