... Chicken Soup The Brothers McMullen Burns Edward The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Keeping the Faith The Big Sick Peace after Marriage Irish American Jewish Film Marriage Movies Representation Romance Hollywood Characters When the short silent film Becky Gets a Husband...

...This chapter discusses two primary concerns of the book: first is the need to understand current representations of girls in relation to the past; and second, the theorization of the girl star/celebrity. It presents a girl-focused history of the Hollywood star system—specifically focusing on Tatum...

...This chapter examines the hit ABC television series Extreme Makeover, the definitive surgery makeover show. In each of the 55 episodes, “real-life” people moved to Hollywood to undergo extensive aesthetic surgery to dramatically transform their appearance. The narrative structure...

...This chapter explores the spatial distribution of filmmaking regimes between Bombay and Hollywood, with particular emphasis on how money and investment possibilities manage the exchange between the two media industries. It presents three interrelated case studies in the transnational geography...

...Kristen Whissel’s chapter examines what she labels “the Classical-era Hollywood prison film.” Whissel contends that scholars and critics have often approached this kind of film as a subgenre of the crime drama, the gangster film, or film noir and, as a result, critiqued it in terms of the lack...

... Christian film distribution network and the subsequent rise of videotape. While the Christian film market maintained its separation from Hollywood, it was aware of the trends in the larger industry. Rather than imitating the secular behemoth, it focused on preaching sermons, reporting on missions...

... investigates how a coded, more polite, and postracial form of racialized sexism affects those who work in the industry as much as infiltrates the entertainment products that make their way to audiences. This chapter draws upon interview data with prolific Black women television professionals in Hollywood...

...This chapter looks at how actress Felicia Day manages her star persona as an authentic gamer and Hollywood outsider by addressing similar questions of identity, while shifting categories away from evocations of the “national” to the blurred boundaries between “celebrity” and “fan.” Day repeatedly...

...This introductory chapter discusses Hedda Hopper's career. Hopper rose to fame as a nationally syndicated Hollywood gossip columnist. Published in eighty-five metropolitan newspapers as well as small-town dailies and weeklies in the 1940s, she had an estimated daily readership of 32 million (out...

... were all performers associated with racially stereotypical and often demeaning roles. Her interactions with them were characterized by paternalism and condescension, demonstrating her beliefs in black inferiority and inequality. For blacks in the post-World War II period who challenged Hollywood's old...

...Applying a political economy lens to image production suggests that the US film industry, namely, Hollywood, prioritizes financial considerations over racial justice and equity. Decisions made in the production and marketing processes aim to minimize financial risks, but they often limit...

...The Hollywood Jim Crow creates a resurgence of the Negro Problem previously articulated by W.E.B. Du Bois in which Blackness becomes a race stigma in need of remedy. Black directors’ perspectives and career trajectories are steered in a direction to overcome Hollywood insiders’ presumption...

...This chapter summarizes the main argument of the Hollywood Jim Crow. Hollywood insiders deploy economic and cultural logics that Black films will not make sufficient enough money to be viable financial investments, especially in foreign markets. This justification is used to devalue films...

...This book explores the connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema from 1913 to 2013. Drawing on the humanities and social sciences, it analyzes the contact between American and Bombay cinema by highlighting India and the United States as both real and imagined stages of encounter. By focusing...

...This chapter examines how the dynamic of copying framed the historical relations between Hollywood and Bombay cinema. It begins with a discussion of rules of geopolitical transformation that try to institutionalize imitation in ways that preserve structural domination between the West and the Rest...

... of modular forms of consumer mobility, along with the role of Hollywood in the emergence of multiplex as a manifestation of theatrical innovation in India. The chapter begins by providing a historical background on how America influenced India's exhibition infrastructure, paying special attention...

...This book has explored the ways in which Hollywood figures itself in India and encounters Indian media ecologies, from the video parlor and the multiplex to the hoarding and the film poster, the on-location shoot, the art market, and the bazaar. In conclusion, it discusses the relations between...

...This chapter analyzes how the mentalities of Hollywood casting directors have shifted as the field has moved from above-the-line executive status to below-the-line independent contractor status in the current production climate. Female labor, particularly, have come to dominate the ways in which...

...This chapter argues that the success of Hollywood productions is not caused by the global flow of filmed entertainment through Internet TV. The success is attributable to other factors such as Hollywood's high productivity and industry structure. It derives from managerial responses to the concept...

... viewed examples of Arab and Muslim characters from contemporary shows, and questions guided the discussions about how the images and characters are perceived by these disparate audiences. Arabs and Muslims have been maligned in Hollywood ever since the earliest silent movies of the 1920s. Jack Shaheen...