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Hollywood has an infamously long history of markedly disgusting behavior and attitudes behind its veil of entertainment and art, some of which were exposed through the recent Me Too movement. In addition to sexual harassment and assault and numerous other heinous acts native to the entertainment culture, Hollywood has also set the precedent for homophobia …

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For CINE 345: this entry engages with learning materials explored in Week 4 After watching All About Eve and coming to terms that it is one of the greatest movies ever made, I began to wonder what Bette Davis’ star image truly is, since it isn’t as obvious as with Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe. Martin …

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For CINE 345: this entry engages with learning materials explored in Week 3 The promise of the stardom phenomenon is that the audience learn something new about stars with every subsequent film, granting each theatergoer gradually closer access to every star’s true, inner, private self. Studios depend on this notion as much as stars do, …

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For CINE 345: this entry engages with learning materials explored in Weeks 1-2 In light of being separated during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, my family established a weekly movie watching and review routine over Zoom. Every week one of our four family members would select a movie for everybody to watch, rotating …

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