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In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a \"New Woman.\" Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.

A book must be more than a collection of blog posts, however, so Petersen has fashioned a sweeping thesis, built on a set of plausible, if not particularly original, claims: \"stars come to embody a culture's hopes and aspirations,\" a \"star [is] the combination of her on-screen and off-screen selves,\" and studying the pattern of \"the emergence of scandal [and] the subsequent emergence of techniques to manage it\" in 20th-century Hollywood gives us \"a vivid picture of the past American century.\"

The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first systematic attempt to explain this apparent paradox. Matthew Baum argues that the answer lies in changes to television's presentation of political information. In so doing he develops a compelling \"byproduct\" theory of information consumption. The information revolution has fundamentally changed the way the mass media, especially television, covers foreign policy. Traditional news has been repackaged into numerous entertainment-oriented news programs and talk shows. By transforming political issues involving scandal or violence (especially attacks against America) into entertainment, the \"soft news\" media have actually captured more viewers who will now follow news about foreign crises, due to its entertainment value, even if they remain uninterested in foreign policy. Baum rigorously tests his theory through content analyses of traditional and soft news media coverage of various post-WWII U.S. foreign crises and statistical analyses of public opinion surveys. The results hold key implications for the future of American politics and foreign policy. For instance, watching soft news reinforces isolationism among many inattentive Americans. Scholars, political analysts, and even politicians have tended to ignore the soft news media and politically disengaged citizens. But, as this well-written book cogently demonstrates, soft news viewers represent a largely untapped reservoir of unusually persuadable voters.

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock admits to sexual misconduct The Hollywood sex scandal is continuing to engulf high profile figures, with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, a Netflix children’s exec and the US version of the Great British Bake Off the latest to be affected. The Super Size Me director issued a personal statement via Twitter detailing his own sexual misconduct. [...]Streaming service Netflix has let director of global kids content Andy Yeatman go after he reportedly told one of Danny Masterson’s alleged sexual assault victims that he did not believe the claims against the actor.