Date of Award
2008
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Communication Studies
Keywords
Public and Social Welfare.
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Abstract
This thesis is an exploration into the ways that homeless people are stigmatized in the media, with particular emphasis on the misrepresentation of homelessness in contemporary Hollywood narrative films. Using a combination of semiotic film theory and ideological analysis, I examine the film language that is used to construct these myths and place them within a larger political context. In doing so, I inspect the relationship between the corporate Hollywood structure and the attitudes they reflect about homelessness. Based on the results of my analysis, I have produced a film that explores an alternative representation to the dominant Hollywood perspective.
Recommended Citation
Young, Benjamin, "Homeless in Hollywood" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2310.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/2310