https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg en-us 2017-10-24 13:34:57 UTC 2017-12-01 09:41:56 UTC hello@padlet.com athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/200215178 -Scarface
-The Pursuit of Happyness
-The Wolf of Wall Street
-The Social Network
-Coming to America
-Forest Gump
-Erin Brockivch]]> 2017-10-24 21:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/200215178 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/200215601 -Precious
-Requiem for Dream
-American History X
-Monster’s Ball
-Brothers
-American Beauty
-Boyz N in the Hood]]> 2017-10-24 21:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/200215601 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210080830 2017-11-25 22:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210080830 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210534154 -Keywords: (1911-1927) filmmakers, motion picture, entertainment
-Summary: LA area attracted filmmakers because of warm and sunny climate, allowing for constant film production
-cheap labor because it was close to Mexico
-1915, LA area outpaced New York area in motion picture output
-During silent area, the big eight studios emerged: Paramount Pictures,  First National, Fox Film, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and United Artist.
-In the 1920s, Hollywood reached a level of film output that has only been matched since then by Bollywood, with over 800 feature films being made per year.
-Studios tried to keep their actors anonymous to prevent them from becoming stars and demanding more money with their popularity, but ultimately proved impossible
- Notable film such as Birth of a Nation made a social impact on it's racially charged material.
-The main competition that Hollywood had during this time came from vaudeville, a popular type of theater show consisting of acts by musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians and acrobats.
-Main purpose during this time was to entertain.
-Reliability: This source seems to provided detail and descriptive insight to the topic of interest
-Opinion: I think silent films provided more creativity than regular films with verbal communication. It allowed the viewer to use their imagination to play out the film in front of them. ]]> 2017-11-27 17:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210534154 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210552394 -Keywords: (1927- 1933) technical, sound, stage, stars
-Summary:  The first completely all-talking full-length feature movie, Lights of New York, made in 8 days with a $23,000,grossed over a million dollars, despite being hated by critics.
-Advances in technology combined with the success of The Jazz Singer meant that, by 1930, "talkies" had been overtaken by silent films.
-Vaudeville popular began to decline
-Vaudeville actors and radio actors fled to film to find work.
-Many silent film actors thought that the rise of sound in films ruined their careers.
-Smaller studios that didn't have the money to switch to sound got left behind and went bankrupt.
-Many actors lost their jobs for having too thick accents
-In 1929, the Academy Awards were founded. The first few ceremonies honored movies from the previous two years.
-Movie musicals swept the screen in 1929.
-Movies during this time: The Artist, Footlight Parade, and Singin' in the Rain.
-Relability: Sources provided specific examples and details.
-Opinion: I think the rise of sound totally transformed films as we know today. ]]> 2017-11-27 17:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210552394 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210561443 -Keywords: (1938-1948)nostalgia, public, moviegoing, affordability, creative
Summary: This was a time of actos like Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis,Judy Garland, James Dean
-Directors like: Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Josef Von Sternberg.
-Critics say this was the greatest collection of talent gathered at one place at one time in history.
It was the era where Hollywood put out more movies in a year than the audience had time to see, far exceeding the output of current day Hollywood.
-The success pf the Golden Age depended on- lack of competing media outlets (TV, home video, internet), greater population of housewives, regular movegoers, affordability of movie tickets.
The classic Hollywood star idea was challenged by more working-class and ethnic actors who challenged the general WASPy look common to the Golden Age.
-Movies in this era: Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, King Kong, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
-See the rise of the "Star System": A key part of the star system, is the idea of "discovery". That is, the Agents and Producers, could take anyone off the street and make themselves stars. Giving them new images, new names, and a whole new identity and personality.
-Some stars would change their look and even get plastic surgery in order to make them more marketable.
-Reliability: Provided more than enough evidence.
Opinion: I think this was the beginning idea that created the American Dream, the fame came first and then money followed. 

]]> 2017-11-27 18:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210561443 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210588138 Keywords: (1927)-1933), censorship, challenges, freedom, principles, enforcement
-Summary: Themes or ideas pushed during this era: The gangster, Horror, politics, the convict, forgotten men, prostitution and fallen women, bad girls, musicals, adultery and sanctity of marriage, corrupt business,
-debate has raged over film's role in promoting social and moral values. In the late 1920s, increased local and state regulation of film exhibition, calls for federal censorship and a series of Hollywood scandals
-In 1930 the Motion Picture Production Code was developed in order to appease Hollywood's critics
- Code outlined dos and don'ts concerning what should appear on American movie screens
-This era pushed the limits and boundaries of American morals and values.
-The fascination with pre-Code films often comes from how openly suggestive and fun the majority of films that made those 7 years.
-Sex, drugs, portrayals of homosexuality and violence would be banned for the public for several decades are exploited by Hollywood studios
-Movies in this era: Monte Carlo, Baby Face, Hell's Angel's, The Most Dangerous Game, The Gay Divorcee, Moulin Rouge, The Invisible Man
Reliability: Evidence and analysis of different movies in descriptive detail. Sites sources and references
Opinion: I believe this is the starting point of changing in attitudes toward women (women movement) and their sexuality. This also gave rise to sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe. ]]> 2017-11-27 18:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210588138 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210609321 -keywords: (1948-1967)- budgets, decision, foreign, production values, restricted, distribute
-Summary: United States v. Paramount, however,outlawed block booking altogether, it also forced the Big Five to sell their theater chains. The result of this was that studios, no longer able to dump a whole year's worth of movies on theaters, now had to be  more selective in what they did produce.
-This led to an increase in the production values and budgets of Hollywood's motion pictures, and a decrease in their number. This also gave more freedom to independent filmmakers and smaller studio.
- Post war period was the age of America's Red Scare and people started fearing that the entertainment industry was being infiltrated and turned into a Communist Propaganda Machine.
-Reliability: descriptive detail
-Opinion: this era was the result of the soviet union and the hysteria from communism. 

]]> 2017-11-27 19:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210609321 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210615190 -Keywords: (1947-1961) communist, government, employment, blacklist, artists
-Summary: cold war starts 1947
-HUAC conducts series of investigations into Hollywood actors, screenwriters, and directors questioning whether or not they were Communist., creating the "blacklist"
-Reliability: historical evidence
-Opinion: I think this era was defined by the Cold War. ]]> 2017-11-27 19:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210615190 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210622878 Keywords: New, realism, low-budget, replicated, culture
Summary: The New Hollywood era came in the swinging 60s. 
-Marked the rise of a new generation of young, film-school educated, counter cultural filmmakers, actors, writers, directors- they would be able to speak to the new generation of young people in  ways the older stars could not. 
-inspired by American pop culture.
-Era about experimentation if new ideas.
-Bonnie and Clyde, and Easy Rider, was considered the first new Hollywood films. Featured hot young stars, violence, sexuality, and a dark tone, 
-Introduction of the MPAA rating system
- The new freedom by the MPAA's ratings system encouraged studios to sponsor and accept bold and radical new content
-Realism was a major theme. The choice of shooting on location was less expensive than shooting on set. 
-Many New Hollywood filmmakers admitted to using marijuana and other drugs, furthering their popularity in the 60s.
- cinema was previously considered a low-class , now it became "quality entertainment" with an artistic respectability nearly on the same level as other arts like live theater
-Movie goers demanded edgy and more graphic content.
-Birth of sub genres such as horror, blaxploitation, and martial arts.
-Cinema at this time focused on realistic themes that occur in everyday life. ]]> 2017-11-27 19:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210622878 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210633822 -keywords: (1982-present), current, genres, 3D, industry, audiences, franchises
-Summary: Jaws was a revolution in cinema
-videocassette transformed the film industry. 
-six- screen theaters started opening up
-independent film 
-Reliability: current events provided evidence
-Opinion: I think this era resonates more with me because I was born in this era, so I have seen more of these films.

]]> 2017-11-27 20:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210633822 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210681284 2017-11-27 21:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210681284 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210700318 Keywords: poll, skepticism, heroism, innocent, values
Summary: Majoritiy of Americans believe that Hollywood’s moral do not reflect their own. They believed the entertainment industry is having a negative impact on moral values on the American people.. 59% of Americans think that TV networks and movie studios don’t share the religious and moral values of most Americans.
Reliability: This source comes from a series of polls that asked questions regarding whether American values and the movies being produced in America correlate together, and do those movies give a representation of American values
Opinion: I think Hollywood tries to paint a picture of having a dynamic view of morals across all walks of life. I think Hollywoood intentionally tries to put out movies with characters that represent good morals and bad morals. ]]> 2017-11-27 23:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210700318 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210703433 Keywords: messages, secularism, realism, appealing, ethics
Summary: A large part of the moral problem of Hollywood is the movies and the moviegoers. The people watch get a sense of un-fulfillment, an seek “affirmation in a culture that lost touch with those realities. People who want to watch movies to leave their own fantasies and relish in escapism, They have lost touch with reality. The Hunger Games was used as a sole example throughout the article.
Reliability: The source is highly biased but provides summary nad examples from the movie the Hunger Games to provide evidence for his justifications.
Opinion: I think all blame can’t be put upon filmmakers and movies, I think the movie watchers can be blamed also. They are the ones who repeatedly demand for more violence, sex, and gore. They are the one’s who want the visual escapism the movies provide for them. ]]> 2017-11-27 23:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210703433 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210707695 Keywords: box office, Christ figure, occult, abhorrent
Summary: People want to see movies that follow Christian values and heroic themes, and provide positive messages, they like movies that contain Christian references. The difference in the box office between Christian movies and non-Christian movie’s are dramatic.
Reliability: This article uses different movie plots and references within those movies as sources
Opinion: I think different people watch different movies for various reasons. SOme people may watch movies as a way to visual a world they wished they lived while others watch for pure entertain, while other may even watch for just criticial analysis. ]]> 2017-11-28 00:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210707695 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210709882 Keywords: ambiguous, appealing, repelled, comparing, anti-heroes
Summary: Popular TV shows and films of today are popular because they touch upon issues that we as a culture are conflicted about. Viewers enjoy watching characters who are immoral (lie and cheat, indulge in drugs and murder), because they are realistic. Not everyone is either a monster or angel.
"(Morally ambiguous characters) are appealing to us because all of us are neither pure saints nor pure sinners," he said. "Hence, we can connect most easily with those characters onscreen who are like us. And when these characters deal with moral ambiguity, it helps us deal with similar ambiguities in our lives." People usually feel more better about something they have done when they read or watch something about a morally ambiguous character. 
Reliability: The article’s author uses multiple to back their claims. 
Opinion: I think this article did a good job deeply analysizing the line between the reality of moral decisions and the moral decisions portrayed in movies and TV. I think these “morally ambiguous characters” play around with the realities of good and evil we face everyday. ]]> 2017-11-28 00:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210709882 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210713575 Keywords: box office, sales, revenue, market, products, budget
Summary: Only a small percentage of movies produced will be profitable. The movie audience to population growth has been shrinking since 1948. New streaming outlets such as Netflix, Amazon, and Time Warner, ticket sales will continue to plummet. The growing competition of these American outlets are moving into India and China and claiming rights for Bollywood and Nollywood films.  Hollywood sold 1.36 million tickets but Bollywood succeeded in selling 2.6 million. In 2009, even Nollywood passed Hollywood to become the second largest film industry
Reliability: Article contained an abundant amount of analytics and data numbers of the information, she supported these claims by organizing them in graphs. 
Opinion: I think Hollywood could be declining economically because of the recent technology advances in DVDs, streaming outlets, and, the internet. ]]> 2017-11-28 00:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/210713575 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211206588 Keywords: contributed, local, wages, trade, markets, global, agreements
Summary: American film and television industry supports 2 million jobs in all 50 states, paying $134 billion in wages to actors, writers, make-up artists, set builders, special effects technicians, accountants, dry cleaners, cinemaicket takers, and more. The industry results in $43 billion per year to more than 300,00 businesses. 
-When a movie or TV show films o locations it brings jobs, revenue, and different developments all in which boost the local economy. 
-Movies and TV shows also are on of America’s greatest exports, distributing to more than 140 countries.
Reliability: This source comes from the MPAA which is the association that are behind the viewer rating of movies, the emulate the movies before they are released to the masses.
Opinion: I think the movie/TV business generates a lot of jobs in the economy, however the money that is made isn’t being distributed to the rest of the people outside of he movie industry. Most of the money that is made is being distributed to the actors who starred in the movies, director, and everyone who was hired to be a part of the project. 
-]]> 2017-11-28 23:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211206588 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211209183 Keywords: combat, commission, lawmakers, ripple effect, funding
Summary: The movie industry is trying to combat illegal piracy and urging foreign governments to crack down on it to. Becomes harder now that entertainment companies are selling products online in the forms of digital songs, movies and others. Movie piracy costs a lost output of 140,00 jobs, $20.5 billion per year, and $800 million in lost tax revenue. 
Relability: The article quotes nd uses many references and sources
Opinion: I think this article does a good job highlighting the negative economical effects on the movie industry. When so much time and money goes into the production and distribution, it could be frustrating when all that get’s taking away. When people have access to seeing newly released films online for free they feel no neeed to go out and purchase to go to the movies. Piracy is a growing issue that wasn’t a problem in the past. ]]> 2017-11-28 23:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211209183 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211212105 Keyword: attention, fads, role model, popularity, influential 
Summary: During the 1920s and 1930s , the rise in popularity of Hollywood movie, screen icons also rose and become role models for the public, especially women. Clothes and hairstyles worn by movie stars grabbed the attention of American and European moviegoers.
Reliability: uses historical dates to provide significance
Opinion: This article does a good job using different examples of trends and fads that were influenced based on actresses and actors throughout Hollywood,

]]> 2017-11-28 23:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211212105 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211219898 Keywords: release, inspiring, liberal, conservative, psychological
Summary: a hand full of movies have impacted the way Americans think and the decisions they make, often times in fear, inspiration, and cultural awareness
Reliability: The article uses several movies and reported analytics to prove to be reptable.
Opinion I think this article did a good job highlighting the cultural significance of film on society. I think it also showed just how influential films have over people’s minds.]]> 2017-11-29 00:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211219898 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211224700 Keywords: realism, authoritarianism, contradiction, brutality, imagery
Summary: This article takes a look at specific horror movies and how they hold a parallel reflection of societal fears. Certain histroical events were the cause of those fears and filmmakers took those events and created movies out of them.
Reliability: This article uses histroical significance and dates to use as evidence
Opinion: I think when certain historical events such as wars, murders, and others that create a social divide and cause social hysteria they leave an imprint. I think these events are inspired our of those events which could raise awareness. ]]> 2017-11-29 01:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211224700 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211227007 Keywords: ruin, traumatic, adrenaline, health, science
Summary: The article states movies can a wide range of psychological effects on the person. Movies can effect your blood pressure and increase risk of heart attacks, or they can provide comedic relief and low blood pressure, and lower stress levels. They could also possibly increase creativity.
Reliability: The source uses different links and references to provide reputatble sources
Opinion: I think this article does a good job providing different viewpoints on how movies can affect your health.  

]]> 2017-11-29 01:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211227007 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211228160 Keywords: aggressive, mood, universal, frightening, identification
Summary: Movies can greatly warp or create a alternate reality for viewers, this can psychological distort of confuse the viewer from what is real and what is not. You get many movies being made around real events which really allows the viewer to relate and connect which resonates with the viewer on another level. 
Reliability: The article uses many references and is written by a non-profit health corporation. 
Opinion: I think this article does well by raising awareness on how movies especially for children can distort reality from fantasy. ]]> 2017-11-29 01:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211228160 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211231064 Keywords: laughter, stress, comedic, intense, entertainment
Summary: This article discusses how films can cause physical and emotional changes in viewers. Films translates thoughts and ideas through emotionas  rather than through our minds.Different genres of films can affect you in multiple ways
Reliability: This article uses sources from doctors and different quotes from professors
Opinion: I think this article do a good job providing different genres that affect your body and mind in different ways. ]]> 2017-11-29 02:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211231064 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211555836 2017-11-29 18:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211555836 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211556164 2017-11-29 18:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211556164 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211556292 2017-11-29 18:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211556292 athurma3 https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211556571 2017-11-29 18:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/athurma3/wnrkvzi6ftjg/wish/211556571