State the opinion of most Americans in the 1920s regarding Hollywood actors.
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People had more time to spend on leisure and Americans fell in love with the movies. The movies were a cheap form of entertainment and Hollywood in the 1920's was a booming industry. The black and white silent movies progressed to color productions in the 1920's and in 1927 the first talking picture was made.
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By the early 1920s, Hollywood had become the world's film capital. It produced virtually all films show in the United States and received 80 percent of the revenue from films shown abroad.
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The presence of African Americans in major motion picture roles has stirred controversy dating back decades before Hattie McDaniel played Mammy, the house servant, in Gone with the Wind. "Through most of the 20th century, images of African-Americans in advertising were mainly limited to servants like the pancake-mammy Aunt Jemima and Rastus, the chef on the Cream of Wheat box."[1] The roles that the African-American community were generally offered, usually fell into one or more of three themes; a tale of rags to riches, thug life, or segregation. "Many researchers argue that media portrayals of minorities tend to reflect whites' attitudes toward minorities and, therefore, reveal more about whites themselves than about the varied and lived experiences of minorities". Producing films in this way is what leads to a singular perspective and opinion to dominate mainstream media.[2]
In Richard Dyer's White: Essays on Race and Culture, he states that “research repeatedly shows that in western representation white overwhelmingly and disproportionately predominant, have the central and elaborated roles, and above all are placed as the norm, the ordinary, the standard.”[3] This representation has become a norm in regards to Hollywood film, which in turn has created problematic issues creating narrative ideas of representation of race in ideologies, stereotypes, racism, oppression, representation and ideas of the Other. Dyer also states that “race is not only attributable to people who are not white, nor is the imagery of non-white people the only racial imagery.”[4]