Hollywood Culture: Reflection on #OscarsSoWhite
Each student will write a 250-300-word reflection based on the readings .
Students must draw on atleast one concept that is discussed a across the readings of the week and are encouraged to reflect upon how they think about and relate to the concept in their lives or in relation to other concepts discussed in the course.
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Hollywood Culture
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In Isabel Molina-Guzmán's article, "#OscarsSoWhite: how Stuart Hall explains why nothing changes in Hollywood, and everything is changing," the author engages with Stuart Hall's concepts of culture, representation, ideology, and hegemony to dissect the tenacious lack of diversity in Hollywood. The article explores the Hollywood paradox, noticing the discrepancy between the film/Television industry's limited diversity in production and the increasing on-screen representation in television. One key concept examined in the article is Hollywood as a cultural institution reflective of broader social conflicts. Hall's system helps contextualize the low speed of change in Hollywood in spite of huge cultural shifts, for ex