SOCC44H3 Lecture Notes - B Movie, Studio System, Indian Railways
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Small independatn cinemas could not afford major studios show fees-they should european films instead. 2. technical innovation is co-opted by major companies (an attempt to offset audience attribution due to home media carriers) major companies now own tv production units their parent companie own cinema chains. Remember bourdieu: high art is defined by support of high status individuals, not by high aesthetic values beginning of commercial film in the 1890"s: entertainment film as news: ww1 and ww2, influence of television. German expressionist film of the 1920"s: no differentiation between film as art and entertainment. Established as art in france in the 1930s. Na films in the 1950s: duality of entertainment and art film (hollywood and euro films) First films were entertainment and actors were compared to like prostitutes, but then with live theatre, it became viewed as art and actors were given a little more respect.
