The Jazz Age Through Hollywood : The Transformation Of The American Culture As Represented In " The Great Gatsby 2013"

Résumé: This dissertation fosters a debate on the position of cinema in portraying History as well as tracing its interrelatedness with culture. The American cinema was subjugated to a systematic development that was inaugurated in the 1920s, and evolved to be the first entertainment industry in America. Many historians who delved in this subject demonstrated that, as a new medium, cinema had Two-dimensional areas that tackle from one side its nature as a system that reproduces culture. And from the other side, its stance as an autonomous Industry that produces culture. Interestingly, this dissertation attempts to: First, document the history behind the roaring twenties and Hollywood. second, It lends support to shed the light on the interrelatedness between history, particularly the Jazz Age, and Hollywood. And finally, It works to examine the 2013 movie version of " The Great Gatsby", and the consequential hangover of the two phenomena through the Film's anatomy that consequently involve a potential measurement of Hollywood as a system that produces/reproduces culture.

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