Hollywood has a long history of pigeonholing, racial stereotyping and oversight concerning racial demographics. Following the backlash against famous whitewashing criticism aimed at recent remakes of foreign classics, such as the 2017 Ghost in the Shell rehash, Hollywood is trying a change of approach by funding more ethnically diverse story-lines and culturally accurate productions. The benefit is arguably Hollywood’s though, as they are simply trying to cash in on changing attitudes and a more ethnically diverse audience, making this just a new form of Hollywood exploitation. Studies have shown that diversity in a films casting helps to sell films at the box office. With the recent release of films like Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, is Hollywood starting to correct decades of ethnic diversity oversight or trying to cash in on changing values in American society?
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