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How many new academy members joined Oscars since 2016?

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8000 (inlcuding Kendrick Lamar, J.K.Rowling)

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Director’s greatest 6 movies

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  1. A Space Odyssey
  2. Dr. Strangelove
  3. Barry Lyndon
  4. Goodfellas
  5. Taxi Driver
  6. The Departed
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Oscar campaigns costs

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100m-500m
72000 dollars for an ad in The Hollywood Reporter

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2 main film magazines

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  1. Variety
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
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Issues with academy awards

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  1. best picture doesn’t = good or bad
  2. 15% are women nominees
    a. female screen time in Oscars 37%, speaking 27% (screen time Hollywood movies 36%, speaking 35%)
    female lef films make 16% more than men
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Geena Davis

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Inclusion quotation (GD-IQ) = automated analysis of the media content

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Mulan, US, 1998

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Mushu, protector dragon spoke 50% more than Mulan

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Hollywood’s purpose

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to make money

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2 extremes about Hollywood

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  1. Hollywood is the only cinema
  2. only commercial cinema
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the American dream

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coined by James Thrushlow Adams (Epic of America)
The Godfather, 1972, US -> I believe in America

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Reinhold Wagnleither “Hollywood is a text of power”

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The American dream became big after WWII -> happiness by consumption

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Why is Hollywood so different? 3 factors

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  1. studio system -
  2. the star system
  3. genre
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the studio system

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method of film production and distribution, dominated by a few large productions companies that compete against each other (Paramount, Walt Disney)

auteur theory - director is the major creative force

vertical integration - maximizing profit, all layers of industry conform to the same efficient

The Wizard of Oz, 1939 - organization of studies

Taylorism - each employee has own tasks - Charles Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936, US

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the star system

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The star - private life is scripted to maximize adoration from audiences
The biograph girl - Florence Lawrence, Canada 1886-1938 = first Hollywood star

most influential = Mary Pickford (founded a studio with Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks)

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genre

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category of film based on set of stylistic criteria
musicals - based on songs (Singing in the Rain, 1952, US)

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Classic Hollywood movie recap, 3 stages (during Golden age 20s-60)

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  1. presentation - explaining the story

America, America, Elia Kazam, US, 1963 - why he emigrated. dropping the Turkish hat in the water, and saying he’ll buy a new one in America

  1. crisis -
    Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming, US, 1939 (most profitable movie in Hollywood history) - Hattie Mcdaniel, the server won an Oscar, but could not attend
  2. resolution
    Frank Capra, Prelude to War, US, 1942
    It’s a Wonderful life, US, 1946
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boxing movies

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Rocky, 1976, US “no pain, no gain”
Rocky IV, 1985- symbolizes the cold war, the Russian boxer was on steroids
Creed - franchise

Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980, US
-the “other” America
-doesn’t praise boxing, but asks how much one is willing to do to become the greatest
- Jake the raging bull = trapped in the system, in the rink, like an animal
-nothing to glorify, because he is trapped without a choice, all he can do is fight

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road movies

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about the journey, not the destination
Thelma and Louisa, 1991, US

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Dennis Hopper - drugs, rock, sex

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made Hollywood popular again
Easy Rider, US, 1969
-Hollywood was losing popularity
-not a typical ending
-Up to the audience to decide if it is happy or not

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the new Hollywood

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-movement/generation at the end of 70’s - authorial approach, directors were specialists (went to film schools)
Steven Spielberg, Jaws, 1975, US
- not costly but profitable -> blockbusters = feature films - very profitable, popular and financially successful

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Francis Ford Coppola

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Revolutionized Hollywood
The Godfather, 1972, US (based on a book by Mario Puzo, 1969)
didn’t want to produce, but did it so he could make the movie Apocalypse Now, 1979 (19th best)
- non-diegetic sound -> orchestra while US army flies over Vietnam and kills civilians to surf at the beach -> shows the absurdity of war

  • the “other America”
  • not typical or happy ending
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The Irish community portrayed in Hollywood

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Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese, 2002, US
the american dream –> not for immigrants
-Goodfellas, 1990, US
-The Irishman

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Hollywood vs. TV –> new Hollywood

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  • the rise of African American filmmakers - Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, 1989, US
    blaxploitation - early-mid 70’s feature black actors in effort to appeal to black urban audiences to tap into a new profit source
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Women filmmakers

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Sofia Cappola, The Virgin Suicides, 1999

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