• Payam Saeidy

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• Omid Amani

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Studies about the role of media in shaping people’s minds have recently become
popular. “Angel city” is a play written by Sam Shepard dealing with Hollywood movies that
shows how art is used in this industry as a commodity at the hands of capitalists. This article is
an attempt to explore the ideas of some postmodern critics like Michael Foucault, Jean-François
Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard to maintain how Hollywood, as a great entertainment industry, is
at the service of capitalism; thus by virtue of the knowledge the three magnets of the play have
and through manipulating the characters Shepard wants to indicate how their chief goal is to
earn money to gain profit.

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