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Hollywood faces the largest crisis its seen since 1950. This is the story of the shifting role cinema plays in our culture and what it needs to do to stay relevant.
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Sources:
Books:
Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan
Amusing Ourselves To Death, Neil Postman
Media Ecology, Lance Strate
Films/TV:
The Exorcist (1973)
Jaws (1975)
Sinners (2025)
Room 666 (1882)
Big Media in America - National Education Television (1959)
This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message (1967)
Neil Postman Interview - CSPAN (1988)
March of The Movies - March of Time (1949)
Articles:
The Fordham Experiment, Eric McLuhan
Pautz, Michelle C., "The Decline in Average Weekly Cinema Attendance, 1930-2000" (2002). Political Science Faculty Publications
Theatrical Market Statistics (2009) - MPAA
Is Hollywood Soft Censoring Palestinian Art? - NPR
Report of the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, 1928
What Is Television Doing to Us? Jack Gould, The New York Times June 12, 1949
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Chapters:
0:00 "The Devil Made Her Did It"
5:01 Phonevision
9:31 Hollywood In Crisis... Again
15:08 What is Media Ecology?
23:08 Amusing Ourselves To Death
26:50 The Message of Cinema
31:37 the hypermodern
42:11 "Bad Habits May Result"
47:16 An unofficial guide to saving cinema
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