HIST 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oscar Micheaux, Rudolph Valentino, Silent Film
25 Oct 2016
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Genre, stars & pre-war hollywood as collaborative industrial system. The clip shows a montage style of bloopers in a collaboration of different film/scenes. Articles this week look into how people moved in and out of the industry and not everyone was a studio property (not on contract always) realistic understanding how most ppl worked in hollywood. White chapter talks about hollywood as a industrial system and stardom *** Often black, hispanic etc. play supporting roles. Independent responses to studio domination of hollywood and effect on funding, casting of films for majority white audience (nationally) Birth of a nation, (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:883)(cid:887) (cid:523)white stories to white ppl other stories weren"t told(cid:524) didn"t like how it portrayed blacks as a danger in society and how african. Efforts to push minorities out in favor of white (cid:498)stars(cid:499) Americans had participated in the film and blacks were mad about the roles they had to play (showed the power over cinema in shaping society)
