Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Women in Early Hollywood
For those who pursue and performing career, Hollywood, from television shows to motion pictures, forthers non-finite opportunities. During the 1920s, opportunities for dark-skinned actors and actresses to appear on the big screen were a privilege. However, there were challenges and limitations. These men and women were attached degrading roles that were depictions of how face cloths perceived menacings and the panache in which white consumemakers wished to submit black life on the big screen. African Americans were not given respectable roles in these word-paintings. Despite their celebrity and their military campaign to break the color obstruction in Hollywood, they were still considered countenance class citizens.\nAfrican-Americans were slowly nevertheless surely going to trade the makeup of white Hollywood they were going to break barriers and protest firm into their demands of being well-thought-of as equals in the white mans world. As former(a) as 1928, African American men and women were low-paid actors and actresses who were relegated to roles much(prenominal) as servants, sambo, and uneducated-men and women. White Hollywood was amazed at how black actors and actresses appealed to white audiences. White filmmakers capitalized off black entertainers, considering them a requisite for the financial mastery of the film industry. Black women, in particular, were subservient in the growing success of white filmmakers in the 1920s. During this period, Evelyn Preer was a pioneer in Hollywood. She was the maiden black actress to appear in motion pictures. Preer faced galore(postnominal) challenges that her successors would also confront during their single film careers. While black actresses had to submit to playing sterile black female characters during the early history of Hollywood cinema, they did so with dignity but persisted in their demands of white filmmakers to provide bonny work environments and to portray them in more respectab le roles.\nDuring its infancy, the film industry did not cast...
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