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Americanization or Americanisation (see spelling differences) is the influence of the American culture and economy on other countries outside the United States, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology and political techniques. Some observers have described Americanization as synonymous with progress and ...
In post World War One America, educators and government officials were becoming increasingly concerned about the role that movies played on children's behaviour. Academics began to ask questions such as whether people were susceptible to persuasion by modern communications or whether the media could make people's behaviour worse. [3]
A landmark film, Gentleman's Agreement, was produced in 1947. It highlighted antisemitism in America during the post-World War II years in America. In the film a reporter, played by Gregory Peck, decides to write a story on the subject, by posing as a Jew himself to gain first-hand experience. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture for ...
The message was: “We’re all in this together.” “The Office of War Information in the 1940s, along with the NAACP, mandated that there be more positive images of Black people in American ...
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
D. W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation set the precedent for heavily racialized stereotypes of African Americans (many played by white actors in blackface) as clowns or predators, and cast the Ku Klux Klan as the saviours of white America. [2] Later films, such as Dark Command (1940), [3] Song of the South and Gone With the Wind (1939 ...
Here, then, are 11 (I just couldn’t narrow it down to 10) contemporary films made by or about Native people that are some of my favorites. You know, from one creature to another.
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.