COMM ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Double Album, American Authors, Motion Picture Production Code

• School: UCLA
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM ST 10
• Professor: Professor Suman

Document Summary

Males go to the movies more, as soon as it comes out. Females made titanic successful, girls prefer to go to the movies in packs, see it again. High impact/ high involvement, put into an environment like a theater, films can draw you into movie settings. Viewers want to be taken away from life problems. Films entertain us through clich s, ex: hero surrounded by a bunch of bad guys, they attack him one at a time. 1915 court ruled film as business so they could regulate films. Film didn"t want to be regulated so they regulated themselves. Hays office and code: restricted language, sex, bodies, profanity, they could pay a fine if they wanted to use a bad word. They took out hay"s court and put in mpaa to rate movies. If the movies were originally rated r, they would make changes to make is pg-13. It changed distribution, can send out thousands of copies over the internet.