Hollywood

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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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• 2-26-15
  

  Why Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Can’t Just Be Solved with Fancy Award Ceremonies and Gold Statues

  by Cara Caddoo

  For most of its history, Hollywood has worked hard to identify—and undermine—the work of black actors and filmmakers.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-15-15
  

  Hollywood’s first hit film was an embarrassingly racist movie about the Klan

  by William Loren Katz

  'The Birth of a Nation': A Century Later

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• 2-15-15
  

  When It Matters that Hollywood Get History Right

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  Even when Hollywood’s got a good story to tell, the facts matter.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1-19-15
  

  It’s not just “Selma”: Hollywood’s history problem

  by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

  Again and again, from "John Adams" to "Lincoln," romantic truthiness supplants historical truth on-screen

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• SOURCE: Cinefix
  7-9-14
  

  The History of Hollywood in Under 10 Minutes (Video)

  A Video Crash Course in Cinema From 65 A.D. to the Present

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• 3-10-14
  

  Will "Noah" Help Egypt Separate Church and State?

  by Juan Cole

  The new Russell Crowe vehicle faces bans across the Middle East and North Africa. Here's why it's an important litmus test for religious freedom in the region.

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• 3-10-14
  

  Maximilian Schell Changed the Way We Think About the Holocaust. Really.

  by Jennifer Frost

  1960's "Judgment at Nuremberg," Schell's starmaking role, avoided the redemption so typical of Holocaust movies of that era.