History of Hollywood

History of Hollywood

Provide an 1100-word answer (100 words more than the previous exam) to the following question. You have a 50-word buffer on each end of the word count so your answer must be from 1050 words to 1150 words. No more, no less or points will be deducted. Please include a word count at the top of your essay. Footnotes and bibliography should not be included in this word count. Please remember to frame your answer through this course’s approach to Hollywood: as a negotiation between art and industry, entertainment and commercial enterprise, and “show” and business. Please refer to at least three different readings from the Hollywood Film History reader in your answer. The “Production Code” and the movies themselves do not count as sources. Properly cite these readings according to MLA or Chicago Manual of Style and provide a proper bibliography at end of the essay. Failure to cite three sources from the Hollywood Film History reader will result in a failing grade for the answer.
              Lesson 13 discusses the blockbuster as the driving force behind the decision-making of the Hollywood studios at the end of the twentieth century. First, briefly describe the artistic and business characteristics of the blockbuster and how it operates in Batman (1989). Second, compare and/or contrast the blockbuster film at the end of the century to ONLY two of the following films: Salt of the Earth, A Face in the Crowd, Gold finger, Bonnie and Clyde, Do the Right Thing, or Boys Don’t Cry. Make sure to ground your answer in history, explaining how the economic and industrial forces of that time shaped the creative decisions at work in those films. Please remember, though, to compare and/or contrast those times. Don’t simply describe the films independently from one another.