Hollywood Book Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Having goals and dreams is something that every person in this planet has in common. All people make dreams, although these dreams greatly vary in terms of its being time-bound, the size of the dream, and everything else. The idea remains the same though. Every person has his own dreams and this truth has existed for the past thousands of years. Being casted in one of the mainstream movies or even TV series in Hollywood can be anybody’s dream, although it is not in any way a simple one, or something that anyone can easily achieve.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, took on themes of Hollywood and the film industry, pointing out its glitz, glamour and tragedy in equal measure. In the 1930s, the film industry began a transition from the artistic experimentation of its early days to the greater commercialism of Hollywood; Fitzgerald’s novel explores this transition in very intriguing ways. Telling the story of Monroe Stahr, a character loosely based on MGM’s golden boy Irving Thalberg, Fitzgerald paints Hollywood and the film business as an incredibly complex and inscrutable place, with its own politics ...

Cedric J. Robinson's Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II is a haunting and in-depth examination of the status of race relations in America in the early twentieth century, through the analysis of the film and theater of the day. Through his analysis of themes, trends and motifs in the films of the era, Robinson concludes that a number of social, economic and political forces present in these films established a firmly entrenched and prejudicial portrayal of the black experience in American cinema and Black cinema in particular.

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In Ellen Baker's book On Strike and On Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, the author discusses attributes of racial and gender inequality that existed within the 1950s, as well as leftist attempts to combat these developments. During the 1951 miner's strike of Hanover, New Mexico, union leaders collaborated between blacklisted Hollywood filmmakers to create a film called Salt of the Earth, a controversial yet highly effective film that provided a filmic representation of leftist desire and calls for equality, for both women and minorities. Baker provides a detailed account of the circumstances leading up to the creation ...

Book Review: Produced By Faith

Book Review: Produced By Faith
The book Produced by Faith authored by Devon Franklin (2011) is a non-fiction motivational and a career guide book primarily written for the Christian audience of all ages. The author’s primary goal is to provide guiding principles for devoted Christian, striving to make significant life achievements for themselves without compromising their Christian beliefs.
The title suggests that religious faith is a fundamental ingredient needed to realize meaningful career success. Although the author uses liberal Biblical references, the book is extensively limited to a Christian audience. It is written from the point of view ...

1. How did the Cold War emerge after W.W.II? How did the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. view actions such as the Berlin Blockade and a policy stance such as the Truman Doctrine differently?
First off, after WW2, the U.S emerged as the sole superpower, mostly because of its nuclear bomb capacity. In addition, the Soviet Union had millions of citizens and was in no position to engage in any new militaristic operations. At that time, the US and the Soviet Union were uneasy allies, because of their mutual fear of the Nazi influence. Their partnership was “born of a ...

A number of writers have contributed a lot of contextual studies to the subject or literature of American family life and cold war era. One of the major contributors in this regard who has also been widely acclaimed is Elaine Tyler May. The aim of this paper is to critically assess the book entitled, “Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era” written by Elaine Tyler May. The aspects that would be focused in the paper include the assertions made by the author in order to illustrate the story of American life in the post-war period. The manner in ...

Introduction

Science fiction in the modern world plays a crucial role in providing imaginative contents of the things that human beings should expect at some point in time. This genre explores the likely effects and consequences of the innovations that are scientifically based. This genre is used by people to address current trends in the world and warn them of the possible effects that may be brought by the trends in the late life. The setting of such content is based in futuristic events and addresses issues such as the development of science and technology and the most likely scenarios that ...