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"[[Hollywood]] took my formula diminished the concept of [[Négritude|Negritude]] to a flamboyant cartoon and reversed the political message turning it into a [[counter-revolutionary]] one and voila, out of the commercial success of ''[[Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |Sweetback]]'' -- to make a long story short -- the [[blaxploitation]] movie was born."--[[Melvin Van Peebles]] cited in ''[[Classified X]]'' (1998) "[[Hollywood]] took my formula diminished the concept of [[Négritude|Negritude]] to a flamboyant cartoon and reversed the political message turning it into a [[counter-revolutionary]] one and voila, out of the commercial success of ''[[Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |Sweetback]]'' -- to make a long story short -- the [[blaxploitation]] movie was born."--[[Melvin Van Peebles]] cited in ''[[Classified X]]'' (1998)
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-"They [the movies] have fed it [the American character] [[naïveté]] and [[buncombe]] in doses never before administered to any people. They have slapped into the American mind more human [[misinformation]] in one evening than the dark ages could muster in a decade."--[[Ben Hecht]]+"They [the movies] have fed it [the American character] [[naïveté]] and [[buncombe]] in doses never before administered to any people. They have slapped into the American mind more human [[misinformation]] in one evening than the dark ages could muster in a decade."--''[[A Child of the Century]]'' (1954) by Ben Hecht
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-"A woman who is known to change her lovers five times a year is as acceptable socially as any virgin... Virgins have never been acceptable in Hollywood."+"A woman who is known to change her lovers five times a year is as acceptable socially as any virgin... Virgins have never been acceptable in Hollywood."--''[[A Child of the Century]]'' (1954) by Ben Hecht
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-Schrijvers in Hollywood, ze waren onontbeerlijk, en de enige mogelijkheid om+Schrijvers in Hollywood, ze waren onontbeerlijk, en de enige mogelijkheid om ze in het systeem in te passen, om ze te laten gehoorzamen, zoals Hecht schreef, was ze fors te betalen. Met het geld van de Wangers, de Thalbergs, de Milgrims, de Stahrs, of
-ze in het+hoe ze ook heetten of genoemd zijn. Schrijvers in Hollywood hebben door hun collaboratie het systeem mede in stand gehouden. Slechts een klein aantal heeft teruggeslagen en er mede voor gezorgd dat Milgrims voorspelling in ‘[[The Disenchanted]]’ niet is uitgekomen
-Maatstaf. Jaargang 24+ 
-43+"Twenty years from now, if we can keep improving our product as much as we have since the war, the Hemingways, Fitzgeralds, the Wolfes and the Hallidays will start out as screenplay writers instead of novelists... The great American writing of the
-systeem in te passen, om ze te laten gehoorzamen, zoals Hecht schreef, was ze fors+future will be done directly for the screen.""
-te betalen. Met het geld van de Wangers, de Thalbergs, de Milgrims, de Stahrs, of+
-hoe ze ook heetten of genoemd zijn. Schrijvers in Hollywood hebben door hun+
-collaboratie het systeem mede in stand gehouden. Slechts een klein aantal heeft+
-teruggeslagen en er mede voor gezorgd dat Milgrims voorspelling in ‘The+
-Disenchanted’ niet is uitgekomen:+
-‘Twenty years from now, if we can keep improving our product as much as we have+
-since the war, the Hemingways, Fitzgeralds, the Wolfes and the Hallidays will start+
-out as screenplay writers instead of novelists... The great American writing of the+
-future will be done directly for the screen.’+
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[[Image:Hollywood.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Hollywood]] is iconic for the [[mainstream]]]] [[Image:Hollywood.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Hollywood]] is iconic for the [[mainstream]]]]

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It is Camille Paglia's central thesis that in the 20th century (which she calls the Age of Hollywood) pagan popular culture overtook and vanquished the high arts. Thanks to advances in technology, pop became a universal language, as catholic in its reach as the medieval church. Once pop art embraced commercial iconography, the avant-garde was dead.

"Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA." -- Jack Valenti

"Hollywood took my formula diminished the concept of Negritude to a flamboyant cartoon and reversed the political message turning it into a counter-revolutionary one and voila, out of the commercial success of Sweetback -- to make a long story short -- the blaxploitation movie was born."--Melvin Van Peebles cited in Classified X (1998)

"They [the movies] have fed it [the American character] naïveté and buncombe in doses never before administered to any people. They have slapped into the American mind more human misinformation in one evening than the dark ages could muster in a decade."--A Child of the Century (1954) by Ben Hecht

"A woman who is known to change her lovers five times a year is as acceptable socially as any virgin... Virgins have never been acceptable in Hollywood."--A Child of the Century (1954) by Ben Hecht

Schrijvers in Hollywood, ze waren onontbeerlijk, en de enige mogelijkheid om ze in het systeem in te passen, om ze te laten gehoorzamen, zoals Hecht schreef, was ze fors te betalen. Met het geld van de Wangers, de Thalbergs, de Milgrims, de Stahrs, of hoe ze ook heetten of genoemd zijn. Schrijvers in Hollywood hebben door hun collaboratie het systeem mede in stand gehouden. Slechts een klein aantal heeft teruggeslagen en er mede voor gezorgd dat Milgrims voorspelling in ‘The Disenchanted’ niet is uitgekomen

"Twenty years from now, if we can keep improving our product as much as we have since the war, the Hemingways, Fitzgeralds, the Wolfes and the Hallidays will start out as screenplay writers instead of novelists... The great American writing of the future will be done directly for the screen.""

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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical centre of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym for the American film and television industry. In fact, one can safely regard Hollywood, or the American film industry, as the pinnacle of mainstream cinema.

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