Posts Tagged "actor"

Reel Inequality (Rutgers University Press) – Press Release

Posted on Oct 23, 2016 | 0 comments

We are proud to support Dr Nancy Yuen’s forthcoming book Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2016). CMCS will feature her talk about the book at “Bridging Gaps: Where is the film scholar in Hollywood filmmaking?” conference (March 17-19, 2017) at University of Southern California. Read reviews of the book in the latest press release from Rutgers University Press. Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, while shedding light on how they survive in a racist industry. The book charts how white male gatekeepers dominate...

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CFP Hollywood Encyclopedia

Posted on Feb 11, 2016 | 0 comments

From Dennis Cutchins <dennis_cutchins@byu.edu> Call for Contributors: Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory, edited by Bob Batchelor, Norma Jones, and Kathleen Turner  Hollywood has long influenced popular culture, both as a source of entertainment and as the subject of legends. Written for high school and college students, as well as intelligent general readers yearning for factual, well-research and well-written material, this encyclopedia examines the history and mystery of Hollywood, focusing on the presence of Hollywood in the American...

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