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  • Essay / How Globalization Has Influenced Hollywood - 904

    Globalization is a highly debated topic in today's world. It's rare that a conversation about the world goes on without including globalization. The lure of globalization has not extended beyond the tentacles of Hollywood, which has taken advantage of all the hot-button issues arising from globalization to maximize its profits. Topics such as blood diamonds, global warming, and the ethnocentrism of other cultures toward the United States have become popular topics in the multimillion-dollar films produced by Hollywood. Hollywood. Films such as Rocky IV, which depicts the Cold War over a boxing match, are just one film that has been used as a global political issue for economic gain. This article will highlight how Hollywood uses political issues in its film to increase its profits. Hollywood also used "As terrorist actions, both state and non-state, have spread in both frequency and destructive power since the 1960s, the subject has become an enduring source of narratives, fantasies, and myths that have contributed to Hollywood cinema with its familiar emphasis on international intrigue, exotic settings, graphic violence and demonization of foreign threats. Images of political violence have strong appeal in the United States, where gun culture, civic violence, a crime wave and a thriving war economy permeate the landscape. ยป (Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard) Hollywood's use of globalization issues to increase sales has been a trend since the beginning of cinema. Even after the September 11 attacks in the United States, Hollywood did not stop its quest for capital gains by using America's vulnerability to make films. "Al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon... middle of paper......one." (Guggenheim Productions) Although it was given a Hollywood touch with actors like Leonardo Dicaprio, this film is not exactly fantastic as it highlights the importance of government in Africa and the need to help its citizens. those mentioned above were used to generate revenue for powerful Hollywood, but along the way they raised awareness of the issue. From terrorism to global warming, issues like these are volatile in today's world and Hollywood knows this and produces such films with capital as the true intention, while at the same time imposing the problem on the people of the world of today. Spectacle of Terrorism By Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard(http://www.ocnus.net/cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=103&num=26261)WWW.IMDB.COM/blooddiamondWWW.IMDB.COM/inconvinienttruthWWW. IDDB.COM