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Women and african-americans are being pushed out as shapers bill makers. and a studio system that's organized around stars and women become the objects of that comodification. >> when you have someone like marlena dietrich come from germany, she has to represent the exotic, the other, the unknown. ♪ her great appeal is her fabulous androgeny. everybody seems to like that about her. >> she's playing a cabaret singer dressed in a top hat and tails which had become an iconic outfit she wore in performances for the rest of her life. she takes this young woman from the audience and gives the woma...

♪ >> these days, everything is call an epic. "gone with the wind" was an epic because it shows you the possibility of film. it is a spectacle. here is the civil war and all of its horror and its size. >> this huge pullback scene of wounded southern veterans that's so emblematic. it's very impressive from a technical level. but the stories around the film are, to me, more interesting than the film itself. david selznick, one of the most important players in hollywood is an independent-minded guy. walks away from the studio system at the height of his career to start selznick international pic...

>> she signed her first studio contract 1946 and made a seven-year deal. >> it was here the studios of 20th century fox at the young mr. norma jean baker was elevated to the number one position in hollywood. >> life under the studios tom would also mean loss of autonomy. >> in the studio system in that era looked at as he was a machine and they wanted you on the set on time and to be personal. if you are like marilyn and had insomnia you would become immune to it and have to take more and then cannot get up so they give you something to wake you up. >> it was a vicious cycle that would prove t...

>> she signed her first studio contract 1946 and made a seven-year deal. >> it was here the studios of 20th century fox at the young mr. norma jean baker was elevated to the number one position in hollywood. >> life under the studios tom would also mean loss of autonomy. >> in the studio system in that era looked at as he was a machine and they wanted you on the set on time and to be personal. if you are like marilyn and had insomnia you would become immune to it and have to take more and then cannot get up so they give you something to wake you up. >> it was a vicious cycle that would prove t...

Became the most popular movie ever because of television. in the 1950s, then people started seeing "the wizard of oz" on television and seeing it regularly. and that changed it. much like a movie like "shawshenk redemption". that is a movie that didn't do well at the time but born out of the repeated viewings on television. i really think it's unfair to the other years. i think 1940 and 1941 were better years than 1939. but it's a silly distinction. gone with the wind was in production for 30 years. coincidental it came out in 1939. i think 1939 through 1942 when "casa blanka" came out, can yo...