Blog #6

Odai Aalloh         

Annotated bibliography

My topic is Globalization in Hollywood. My topic will be about the effects of globalization on Hollywood and how it affects it. I am interested in this topic because, Hollywood and movies is something that I want to work with in the future. I want to know more about the impacts of globalization on Hollywood through the last decades. Also how technology helped in globalization.   

•  De, Z., Richard, N., & Otto. (2002). Globalization, soft power and the challenge of Hollywood. Contemporary Politics, 8, 185-202. doi:10.1080/1356977022000025678.

This article will help me know the impact of the soft elements of globalization on Hollywood. Also it shows the historical perspective of Hollywood development.   

• Wang, S. (2003). Recontextualizing Copyright: Piracy, Hollywood, the State, and Globalization. Cinema Journal, 43, 25-43.

This article examines issues of transnational copyright governance. Also under examination are the role of the state in its relations with transnational trade and legal regimes, Hollywood's struggle in fighting piracy, and the impact of digital technology on the market.

•  John, M. (2011). Teaching Institutional Analysis to Fourth-Year Cinema and Media Studies Majors. Cinema Journal, 50, 89-91.

This article examines the motion picture industry from the point of view of small market companies in Canada and their relationship with the global media industry of Hollywood in Los Angeles, California.

• Inarritu, A. G. (2007). Hollywood Must Portray Point of View of Others. NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly, 24, 6-9. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5842.2007.00873.

In this article one of Hollywood's top producers, Mike Medavoy, and the Oscar-nominated director of Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu share their thoughts about Hollywood and globalization.

• Olson, S. R. (2000). The Globalization of Hollywood. International Journal on World Peace, 17, 3-17.

This article shows that Brazil, Hong Kong, and other centers of international television and film production have joined with the United States in forming a global Hollywood media aesthetic in the scramble for audiences. It says also that those countries particularly successful in exporting film and television are microcosms of international audience taste and I think that will help.

• Hyun-key, K. (2013). The Korean Wave: An Asian Reaction to Western-Dominated Globalization. Perspectives on Global Development & Technology, 12, 135-151. doi:10.1163/15691497-12341247.

This article will help me know what Asian countries (Korea) think about Hollywood. It also compares Hollywood with the Korean Cinema in terms of globalization.

• Philippa, G. (2012). The Asian Renovation of Biracial Buddy Action: Negotiating Globalization in the Millennial Hollywood Cop Action Film. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 40, 83-93. doi:10.1080/01956051.2011.636394.

This article shows how Hollywood's adoption of Hong Kong action stars and action cinema conventions has renovated the American genre of the cop action film for the new millennium with myths of transnational cooperation.

• Elena, O. (2012). Images of Love and Money in Hollywood Cinema: Changing Patterns in the Last Decades. International Journal of the Image, 2, 113-125.

I think this article will help know the changes in Hollywood Cinema in the last decades. The article also describes how it changed from the past to now.