The Perpetual Controversy of the Influence of Films on World Culture
The Perpetual Controversy of the Influence of Film on World Culture
Case Clay
Dr. George Pacheco
Angelo State University
The Perpetual Controversy of the Influence of Films on World Culture Through extensive research this paper will examine the idea of movies/film influencing culture. Is it films that influence us or is it us that influence films? “The film business today is a billion dollar industry that has grown tremendously over time. In 2007 alone, the U.S. spent roughly $930 billion on the media industry as a whole.” (Media & Entertainment, 2009) Now it would seem quite apparent that between culture and film at least one of them heavily influences the other. It’s also necessary to imagine the possibility that we are in a world in which film and our culture could be simultaneously influencing each other. In order to better understand the idea of all this we must first understand both film and culture separately. So we will start first with looking at them as totally separate individual ideas and try to understand them on a very basic and individually level. Culture can mean a variety of things depending on the context in which you use the word. The word culture itself can range from the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action all the way to the artistic and social pursuits, expression, and tastes valued by a society or class, as in the arts, manners, dress, etc. (The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 2011) In reading, it is important to understand these two definitions are very different in meaning. Hence, we are going to narrow it down to a more singular meaning which is most beneficial to our research. We will focus on the idea of culture as the attitudes, feelings, values, and behavior that characterize and inform society as a whole or any social group within it. Considering the fact that culture is everywhere we will base our research on world
Case Clay
Dr. George Pacheco
Angelo State University
The Perpetual Controversy of the Influence of Films on World Culture Through extensive research this paper will examine the idea of movies/film influencing culture. Is it films that influence us or is it us that influence films? “The film business today is a billion dollar industry that has grown tremendously over time. In 2007 alone, the U.S. spent roughly $930 billion on the media industry as a whole.” (Media & Entertainment, 2009) Now it would seem quite apparent that between culture and film at least one of them heavily influences the other. It’s also necessary to imagine the possibility that we are in a world in which film and our culture could be simultaneously influencing each other. In order to better understand the idea of all this we must first understand both film and culture separately. So we will start first with looking at them as totally separate individual ideas and try to understand them on a very basic and individually level. Culture can mean a variety of things depending on the context in which you use the word. The word culture itself can range from the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action all the way to the artistic and social pursuits, expression, and tastes valued by a society or class, as in the arts, manners, dress, etc. (The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 2011) In reading, it is important to understand these two definitions are very different in meaning. Hence, we are going to narrow it down to a more singular meaning which is most beneficial to our research. We will focus on the idea of culture as the attitudes, feelings, values, and behavior that characterize and inform society as a whole or any social group within it. Considering the fact that culture is everywhere we will base our research on world
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