Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles known historically as the center of the American film industry. It has influenced global popular culture through the movies and celebrities that emerge from there. Some of the influence includes promoting certain behaviors and styles as "cool" among youth. However, Hollywood films have also been criticized for glorifying sex and violence in a way that attacks moral values, and for promoting an overly simplistic, stereotypical, and American-centric view of international issues and cultures. Ultimately, individuals have the responsibility to discern positive from negative influences.

1. HOLLYWOOD

2. WHAT IS
HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOO
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HOLLYW

3. Hollywood is a district in Los
Angeles,
California, United States

4. It has a cultural identity as
the historical center of movie
studios
and movie stars. The word
Hollywood
is often used as a metonym
of
American cinema.

5. Hollywood is a place
where they'll pay you
a thousand dollars for
a kiss and fifty
cents for your soul
– Marilyn Monroe

6. Some of Hollywood early success

7. CURRENT HIGHEST PAID ACTRESS IN HOLLYWOOD :
ANGELINA JOLIE (12 MIL USD)
CURRENT HIGHEST PAID ACTOR IN HOLLYWOOD :
ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR (10 MIL
USD)

8. HOLLYWOOD’S
INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE TODAY

9. IDENTITY
CRISIS

10. Humans adopt a certain behavior because it
creates a relationship to the people to whom
we are identifying with
- ELLIOT ARONSON

11. Hollywood big films can be very famous across
the globe. This fame managed to influence
people to act in a certain behavior that will
be considered ‘cool’. What celebrities do or
wear these days can easily trend and
influence people especially youth. The
feeling of wanting to be accepted in the
society leads them into following the
footsteps of celebrities

12. MORAL
VALUE

13. “Hollywood is the definition of
sexual discrimination.”
-Ally Sheddy

14. Moral
Hollywood films glorify sex and violence,
attacking the moral values of all societies
and leading their young astray.

15. POLITICAL
VIEW

16. “Hollywood promotes a biased and
peculiarly American view of the world”
- R. Huntington

17. Hollywood portrays a simplistic good vs. evil
view of international conflicts, in which
stereotyped and negative images of Muslims,
Russians, etc.

18. AMERICAN
CULTURE

19. “The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to
be admired by an American, courted by an
Italian, married to an Englishman and have a
French boyfriend”
- KATHARINE HEPBURN

20. Hollywood imposes American
entertainment and its language on the
world, at the expense of indigenous
cultures and languages, and of domestic
film industries. Globalization of
entertainment threatens to result in a
bland, American-flavoured uniformity.

21. WHAT DO I THINK OF
HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD DEFINITELY HAS ITS OWN
UNIQUE WAY OF INFLUENCING PEOPLE.
BUT NOT ALL OF IT IS NEGATIVE. AT
THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS UP TO US
TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE
GOOD AND BAD VALUES

22. REFERENCES
JOURNALS
• K. Sonal. (January, 2010). A comparative study of Bollywood and
Hollywood. Retrieved on 30 July 2012 .
• A. Bruce. ( March 2008). A panoramic perspective from Hollywood.
Retrieved in 30 July 2012.
• K. Leslie. ( December, 2010). Current Survey of Reference Sources in Film
and Television. Retrieved on 30 July 2010.
WEBSITES
• http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/hollywood
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood
• http://www.echeat.com/free-essay/Hollywoods-Influence-on-
People-Today-30924.aspx