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SOURCE: Bright Lights Film Journal
2/23/2021
A Star Is Shorn: Thanks to Woefully Underinformed Campus Activists, Acting Legend, Badger Alum, and Civil Rights Champion Fredric March Is Suddenly “Off Wisconsin”
by George Gonis
In 2018, the University of Wisconsin stripped actor Fredric March's name from a campus theater because of his brief affiliation in 1919 with a campus society called the Honorary Ku Klux Klan. The author argues that this misconstrues the nature of the society, which was not affiliated with the "Invisible Empire" KKK, and erases March's steadfast support for civil rights and opposition to Nazism.
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SOURCE: Medium
12/9/2020
The Other ‘Mank’: Joe Mankiewicz and the Wildest Night in Hollywood History
by Greg Mitchell
The Netflix film "Mank" provides an opportunity to remember the civil liberties stand taken by Frank Mankiewicz's brother Joe, who opposed the imposition of loyalty oaths on the Directors' Guild at the height of the postwar red scare.
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SOURCE: USA Today
12/5/2020
Historians Fact-Check 'Mank': Who Really Wrote 'Citizen Kane?' And Does 'Rosebud' Have A Hidden Meaning?
Film historians suggest the new Netflix drama overstates Frank Mankiewicz's influence over the final form of "Citizen Kane" and takes some other liberties with the facts.
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SOURCE: KERA
9/14/2020
Hollywood’s Colorblind Illusion (audio)
American Studies professor Justin Gomer, author of "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" discusses the political impact of Hollywood's treatment of race.
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9/13/2020
Native Actors Outside the Frame
by Liza Black
Liza Black's new book traces the lives of prominent and anonymous Native actors, examinng the way that Hollywood films exploited their labor and images while spinning narratives that justified the historical conquest of Native lands.
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SOURCE: NPR
8/6/2020
'And The World Went Crazy': How Hollywood Changed After Hiroshima
Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s wrestled with the idea of a planet without humanity. After "Dr. Strangelove" satirized any effort to treat nuclear war seriously on the big screen, Hollywood viewed the bomb through schlock and horror, until the 1980s revival of sentiment for disarmament and "The Day After."
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/12/2020
In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.
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8/11/19
The Cultural History Behind Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
by David L. O'Connor
Like most folktales, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is filled with interesting characters, events, and messages from a bygone era.
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4/14/19
When Women Ran Hollywood
by Juliette Fay
Their names may no longer be widely recognizable, but women built and ran early Hollywood, shaped the industry in myriad ways, and influenced what we see on the silver screen even today.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/5/19
Lois Weber, Hollywood's Forgotten Early Pioneer, Has 2 Films Restored
As Hollywood continues to struggle with the underrepresentation of women behind the camera, most people have forgotten that 100 years ago, one woman ruled.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-10-18
In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer
by Shashi Tharoor
Words, in the end, are all that Churchill admirers can point to. His actions are another matter altogether.
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SOURCE: WSJ
12-28-17
The Lies of ‘The Crown’ and ‘The Post’
by Peggy Noonan
When people get history from entertainment, Hollywood’s obligation to the truth is heightened.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
10-15-17
The Casting Couch Perverts Who Peddled Fairy Tales
by Gil Troy
Hollywood always has, still is, and likely will be full of predators. But two of the most prolific were also two men who dramatically changed the industry.
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6-4-17
One of Hollywood’s Leading Directors Made a Documentary about a WW2 Fighter Aircraft. But the Air Force Refused to Release It.
by Robert Huddleston
This is the backstory.
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1-17-17
Artists Haven’t Been This Outraged by a President Since LBJ
by Robert Cohen
They’re furious with Trump and showing it.
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2-19-17
The Decline of the American Empire – And Hollywood’s
by Dennis Broe
The reason the old Hollywood spectaculars declined.
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7-29-16
Review of Brian J. Snee's "Lincoln Before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America’s Greatest President "
by Ron Briley
There's Spielberg's Lincoln and then there's all the rest. His featured the Great Emancipator. The others mostly focused on Lincoln's role as the savior of the Union.
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3-3-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... Samantha Bee on Black History Month, CNN series on past campaigns, Clarence Thomas movie, documentary about the last man on the moon, and more.
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2-24-16
Pop Culture Roundup: This Week
This week ... Spielberg, Van Gogh, Trumbo, the movie "Race" and more.
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SOURCE: Forward
9-3-15
How Gregory Peck Fought Hollywood Bigotry
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Unpublished documents in the Margaret Herrick Library (the Oscars archive) reveal Peck’s personal opposition to racism, long before Harper Lee even wrote “Mockingbird.” The young actor attacked bigotry against both blacks and Jews.
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