SOC309H5 Lecture Notes - Major Film Studio, American Sociological Review, Block Booking
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Understand the interplay of economic and aesthetic / fashion considerations in film (as in other entertainment industries). Understand that many aesthetic changes in film history have been products of economic consideration. Understand that wider social changes, as well as the changes in entertainment technology and production, influence development of film. Consider influence of television on reception of film, and the film industry"s efforts to counteract this influence. Intellectualization and art world development: film in the united. Processing fads and fashions: an organization-set analysis of cultural. Questions to guide the reading/to think about ahead of time for students. Hirsch views the mass media as an institutional regulator of innovation . Compare this process to that of establishment of theatre as art in the late 19th c. We continue our discussion of entertainment by looking at the history and economics of north.