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Sunset Boulevard was one of the first films to cover the gray area between glory and the fall of a celebrity, but not the only one. Borrowing many plot points from this film, a lesser known 2001 neo-noir movie Mulholland Dr. tells the story of a young starlet named Diane (or Betty, in Diane’s dream) who orders the killing of her girlfriend Camilla (or Rita), who got the role Diane auditioned for. After a series of dreams and illusions, crushed by the weight of truth and guilt, Diane takes her own

Normally, authors would argue with an objective tone. But it is different in the case of Groucho Marx. Comedian and film star, Groucho Marx, in his letter, argues to the Warner Brothers to let the Marx Brothers use the title “Casablanca”. Marx uses different diction to help convey a tone and figurative language such as allusion to convince the Warner Bros. to drop the charges and lawsuits. Marx appeals to emotion to convince and for the readers to relate and laugh as Marx elaborates his argument

Essay 1: Uncanny Resemblance Freud describes the unheimlich or uncanny as recognizing something familiar as unfamiliar. A direct translation of unheimlich is simply, un-homely. Its counterpart heimlich, translating to homely is actually very similar according to Freud’s definition. Often things seen as “unheimlich” can also be seen as “heimlich”. For example, seeing my professor in class could be considered homely. However, seeing that same professor downtown at Double Barrel belligerently drunk

Behind the scenes of the new blockbuster “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” a fight has been brewing between Walt Disney Co. and movie-theater operators. The head of the trade group representing the theaters told Walt Disney Studios he had received “an avalanche of complaints, concerns and fears” from members after the movie studio imposed new conditions on theaters that wanted to show the “Avengers” sequel, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Among the changes: when

Today I will be presenting on The Golden Age of Hollywood, focusing on the 1930’s. Now I’m sure most of you kind of have an idea what The Golden Age of Hollywood is. It’s actually a rather broad term that encompasses the end of the silent era to the late 1960’s. The 1930’s marked the inception of the sound and colour revolutions, resulting in the expansion of film genres such as gangster films, musicals, comedies, and animation/cartoon to name a few. The 1930’s was an incredible decade in classic

studios unparalleled control over film production and the people who worked on them. However, this level of control was not to last as several important events in the late 1940s would dramatically influence the film business. These events were the Paramount decision of 1948 and the Hollywood blacklists in the late 1940s. Both of these events would profoundly reshape the filmmaking business and the way it operated, with effects that last to this very day. Throughout the 1920s 30´s and into the 40´s the

week were going to the movies creating a box office revenue of $1.7 billion dollars. The invention of television and the Paramount case in 1948 delivered crucial blows to the industry. By 1957, attendance was down to 40 million viewers per week. Televisions had become common household appliances and people were watching a lot of it. In 1960, the average household spent 5 hours a day watching television. The film industry had to adapt and find ways to win back their once loyal fan base. The studios

After the 1050’s television became a very popular form of entertainment. Because of the cost of a TV set there were only a few sets in the home of the consumer. For post-World War II Americans, television largely took the movies' place as a dominant cultural influence. The television reached audiences far larger than those attracted by motion pictures, and it projected images right into family's living rooms. The Paramount decision effectively disintegrated the studio system, major studios

Ownership Map of CBS Corporation CBS Corporation is one of the largest mass media corporations in United States. The business of this corporation covers from commercial broadcasting, publishing to television production. Most of CBS holdings are located within United States, but CBS also have overseas holdings for international media business. Today’s CBS Corporation actually has experienced a series of acquisitions as well as split off and it has a complicated history. The predecessor of CBS Corporation

thriving economy and access to new technology, therefore television was just now happening in the 50's, and was an enormous success. History was being made and it altered everything. Sports was just one of those paramount things happening. In the 1950's, sports were affected by the end of WWII, as the veterans were furious and sports were their outlet. In the 1950's recently after WWII, television was very popular. It went from 17,000 televisions that were bought in a month to 250,000 per month. Also