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Description Contents Full Book Free About the Author Discussion Forum |
Explore the reasons for patters of bias in the Hollywood-based motion picture film industry and how such output tends to portrey certain diverse portions of the population in negative and stereotipical manners over the long term.
The first three chapters of this book summarize and provide an overview of the contents of three companion volumes all relating to Hollywood movie patterns of bias (Patterns of Bias in Motion Picture Content, A Study in Motion Picture Propaganda, Motion Picture Biographies–The Hollywood Spin on Historical Figures).
This book and its companion volumes differ from other studies touching on the same topic. Whereas most books considering the subject of bias in motion pictures focus on the treatment of a single ethnic, religious, cultural, racial or other readily identifiable interest group in our diverse society, this study attempts to provide an overview of such bias. The underlying assumption is that once the patterns of bias in motion picture content are demonstrated, it then becomes easier to identify the source of the bias and to explain why such bias exists. This more comprehensive patterns of bias approach is also more useful when remedies are considered, since no single interest group offended by Hollywood with its movie portrayals has yet been able to effectively persuade Hollywood to substantially alter such portrayals over a long period of time. To the extent that some slight change has been brought about, due to the temporary pressure of a particular group or the gradual evolution of cultural sensibilities, Hollywood has merely substituted another equally offensive pattern of bias for the previous portrayals.
This book is dedicated to all of the African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, German Americans, Italian Americans, women, gays/lesbians, Christians, Muslims, Arabs and Arab-Americans, White Southerners and others who have been victimized by Hollywood employment discrimination and patterns of bias on the screen for some 100 years.
John Cones is a practicing securities/entertainment attorney based in Los Angeles. more
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