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Lighting performs an important function in Hollywood film, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. The author examines this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir. With close analy…
Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir, Patrick Keat…
This thesis looks at the trajectory of Arabs' portrayal in Hollywood films. It seeks to examine the historical, political as well as the cultural parameters that triggered Hollywood's interest in Arabs representation and the role these parameters played in drawing the limits of …
“Hollywood Counterterrorism: The Political Economy of Middle Eastern Violence and Protest in Action Feature Films” demonstrates how Western discourses of counterterrorism and the Middle East have shaped Hollywood cinematic productions through sourcing and collaboration with priv…
This dissertation develops a comprehensive study of the influence exerted by Hollywood "genre" cinema, in particular the B-series film noir, on the French New Wave. Initially, I ask if this relationship is not the principle identifying criterion of New Wave cinema. It is, after …
This thesis examines the ways in which Muslims' exclusive portrayal as terrorists in Hollywood films since the 1970s has contributed to a culture of fear towards Islam and Muslims, leading to increased loss of American freedoms and civil liberties. Through the analysis of terror…
The Middle East is at the heart of political debate today. This study analyzes the representation of Middle Eastern politics in contemporary American and Egyptian films produced between 1980 and 2000. The study aims at complicating theories on the East/West divide, namely Edward…
This dissertation is a resource guide on the works of Fred Zinnemann, reflecting an exhaustive cataloguing of the primary, secondary and motion picture sources. This guide includes a brief biographical sketch on Zinnemann's life and his films, a critical review of his films with…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between Hollywood's seemingly overnight development into the nation's first mass culture industry and women's roles as industry workers, fans, and social critics in shaping and defining the sexual and racial politics of postwar Ame…
There is little doubt that Joseph McCarthy challenged the nation in the 1950's in a manner that nearly shattered America from within. The story behind his particular anticommunist campaign has often been overshadowed, however, by the exploits of the man and his mission to exorci…
Did the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, carried out by extremists from the Middle East, affect the way Hollywood portrayed Middle Eastern characters in films? This content analysis compares Middle Eastern characters in films from the five years before September 11, 2001…
In the 1930s, male "moguls" ran the Hollywood studio system, exerting almost absolute control over all elements of film production, and a key to maintaining this dominance was the option contract, which enabled the studio to exploit a star's career for seven years. Nonetheless, …
The American commercial film industry, Hollywood, has often borrowed its story ideas from the U.S. foreign policy agenda, at times reinforcing U.S. policies while at times undermining them and offering alternative interpretations to them and to news media portrayals. One of the …
