MC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: House Un-American Activities Committee, Hollywood Blacklist, Kinetoscope

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Mass Communication
• Course: MC 101
• Professor: J.C.Abdallah

Document Summary

Kinetoscope showed individual moving pictures: the motion picture industry is relatively new. The earliest movies came out at the turn of the century. It took 15 years for the rst blockbuster : movies that had a historical/cultural impact, blockbuster is a movie that has a strong hold on the market, d. w. gri th"s the birth of a nation. Used three miles of lm: movies with sound didn"t come until 1927. The jazz singer was the rst talkie . A lot of di erent location s to shoot at. The studio system also helped in developing the medium: studios can control every aspect of the movie. Illegal questioning accusing people based o little evidence. States that media a ects everyone in the same way. The blockbuster era: 1970"s to now, jaws was the rst summer blockbuster. Home video: vcrs changed the game, think back to our conversation about watching tv on your own time.