The New Yorker “Outrage,” a Hollywood movie from 1950, looks intimately, painfully, and analytically at what we now know to call rape culture. It’s one of the crucial movies of the era, and it’s not easy to find. It was directed by Ida Lupino, who is familiar as one of the hard-edged and worldly-wise actresses…
by Douglas Thompson Bibliothèque de Ville Mont-Royal From the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would, the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood Detailing how the 21st century Mafia uses Hollywood, this no-holds-barred exposé features previously unseen legal…
Anne Helen Petersen Tne Virginia Quarterly Review Anne Helen Petersen received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she wrote her dissertation on the industrial history of celebrity gossip. Apocryphal myth places the beginning of Hollywood stardom in 1910, when producer Carl Laemmle planted a fake newspaper story concerning the death of…
Par L.V. Anderson, Slate.fr The Hollywood Reporter (THR) a publié un long et bel article lundi 25 novembre intitulé «Des animaux ont été maltraités». Le journaliste de THR Gary Baum y présente des preuves implacables que l’American Humane Association (AHA), l’ONG chargée de surveiller le traitement des animaux dans les films et les productions télévisuelles, cache systématiquement les…