POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Utopia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Week 7: first, in many ways american cinema got a head start in the film business. True as a result of ww1 and ww2. During those times, film infrastructure was destroyed and things were unsafe: this gave american film makers the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to come in and film the situation of ww1 and ww2. Large studios at the time when filming was relatively climbing, they had a large budget for marketing. Money can be spent in bulks which fed the movie industry. Lacked in other nations due to no middle class present in them: during the years when cinema was growing (1890s 1930s), many immigrants were coming to the u. s (mainly european). People brought when them various different traditions, cultures and languages: u. s is multicultural, significant: americans made movies that had simple themes, straight forward narratives, action is understandable. Communist empire was made up of the soviet union, eastern european nations.