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Movie database information on nearly all the movies ever made
 

Notes for English 300 paper on Hollywood movies and their ideological content

Student definitions of "ideology"

Recommended books on Cinema Crititicism.

Books:
Seeing Through Movies by Mark Crispin Miller

Recommended Movies about Hollywood and the establishement:

A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Nashville (1975)
The Player
The Candidate (1972)
Network (1976)
Being There (1976)
 

Crispin Miller quotes two Hollywood moguls on their visions of Hollywood's duty to the people:

Harry M. Warner, one of the Warner Brothers, wrote so in The Christian Science Monitor (1939)

Our problem, let me repeat, is to make enjoyable box-office entertainment. No producer can slight that. But above and beyond that is an ever present duty to educate, to stimulate, and demonstrate the fundamentals of free government, free speech, religious tolerance, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and the greatest possible happiness for the greatest possible number. To that end our company and, I believe, our whole industry, stands pledged--now and for the future.

Some of it sounds bogus and hollow, but still there is an interest in people and art and enjoyment.
Crispin Miller even credits Warner's fellow-moguls (Louis B. Meyer, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Samuel Goldwyn, Harry Cohn and others) with genuine interest in the art of the movie although they were equally monopolistic and money-obsessed as the contemporary mogul 
Michael Eisner, the head of Walt Disney Company, who spoke about his vision in Advertising Age thus:

The Disney Stores promote the consumer products which promote the [theme] parks which promote the television show. The television shows promote the company. Roger Rabbit promotes Christmas at Disneyland.

For Eisner,  movies and the industry are nothing more than an elaborate plumbing system for the money flow of various corporations. 

In this new era now, there is no cinema. Only "entertainmaint". Right behind military hardware, entertainment is our second most important export to the rest of the world.

Movie industry controls much of the journalism surrounding the industry, and most of them are despicable, fan stuff. 
 
 

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Film.com
AMG
Movie Finder
Ultimate Movies
VideoFlicks
Critics of the World
Roger Ebert
Hollywood Online

Articles of interest:
Ideology and gender
On SEVEN: the movie
PBS: thinktank discussion on movies
Ronald Reagan on Chesterfield ad
Hollywood & Paradise ideology
Douglas Kellner
On Platoon
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES, AMERICA STEREOTYPED by Walter KLINGER
Ideology of Science Fiction Cinema

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