HIST 3260 Lecture 3: Celebrity & the Modern Audience
28 Sep 2016
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Enormous elaborate ornate theatres that could seat somewhere like 800 patrons watching just one screen iii. Bolstered the celebrities involved in the films while acting as mega advertising opportunities iv. Very expensive to make a movie with sound though! v. Also included were fox, universal, united artists, warner brothers vi. Fatty arbuckle scandal: (people though he was the characters he played on screen) Raised critique by conservative americans of hollywood as promoter of sin and vice. Ultimately vindicated arbuckle in death of virginia rappe (a woman who was raped and died as a result where fatty was accused but probably innocent) Arbuckle died before his career recovered from the allegations and what people thought of him. Showed that hollywood had dark side that was not made public. Voluntary system, replaced by mpaa ratings in 1968 (system with r, The close up shot, studio publicity, the audience = "the star system" (still exists today ex.
