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Here’s where film studies is exemplary. For if there has been an area where American economic (and stylistic) dominance has driven complicated cultural and institutional resistance, it has been in film. Resistance to Hollywood has been national and personal; it’s been aesthetically radical and desperately imitative; but Hollywood has been the elephant in the room since the 1920s...
...barriers are and exactly how they can be overcome. It challenges you to explore both what happens when the barriers fall away (the HFA’s upcoming visit by Tsai Ming-liang, for example) and what forms of greatness are possible because of them (in, say, the best Hollywood Westerns...
...woman bouncing down the stairs of her newly bought Hollywood Hills, Calif., home is petite and pretty with coiffed hair and a dusting of makeup. She does have that husky voice, deepened, she admits, by smoking cigarettes. But her fingernails? Short, clean and unpolished. "The nails, hair, boobs--everything on [my characters] was fake," says de Matteo, laughing...
That was 1976, as portrayed in the new documentary Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy. On May 25, 1977, Star Wars opened, and it instantly altered the way Hollywood would do business, tell stories, reinvent reality. Yet at first the moguls didn't understand the revolution Lucas kick-started. "George was enormously farsighted," Gareth Wigan, the Fox executive on the Star Wars set, says in the documentary. "The studio wasn't, because they didn't know the world was changing. George did know the world was changing. I mean, he changed...
Sources: New York Times; Chicago Public Library; New York Times; Institute for Policy Studies (2); Miramax; Hollywood Reporter; Wall Street Journal...