Josiah Koser 04/10/2017 Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America, Random House inc., New York City, New York, 1994. The argument made by the author Robert Sklar in his book Movie-Made America has to do with the impact that American movies have had on the country's culture and society as a whole. Sklar says this by stating that, “American movies, through much of their span, have altered or challenged many of the values and doctrines of powerful social and cultural forces in American society, providing alternative ways of understanding the world.”
Popular culture in post-war Australia was immensely influenced by American and British culture. Upon the end of World War 2, Australians experienced increased leisure time with nothing to fill it with. The Union had successfully enforced the 8 x 8 x 8 principle, thus supplying Australians with 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure and 8 hours of sleep. Increasing globalisation meant that the average Australian became more aware of the world around them, rather than the impenetrable bubble of their farm or township that they belonged to. This knowledge of foreign ideas and behaviours were quickly adopted because of their tantalizing appeal and soon became extremely common in Australian society.
Remy Scalone Geography essay on should other countries aim to be like Australia. Should other countries aspire to be like Australia? Australia is a thriving nation with a stable economy, impeccable health care and an incredible government that continues to push Australia up the ranks of global nations. Australia is well a developed country with more than 1100 private and public hospitals, over 43000 police officers and a small but steady population of 24.13 million Australian citizens each doing their part and duty to make this great home and a better place to live. Australia has countless strong allies spread all across the globe beginning with our strongest Allie being the United States and the UK.
Mr. John Smith grew up at a time when industrialization had taken hold of the American way of life. Television had a significant influence on people’s lifestyle since a section of the population tried to copy actors’ style. In addition, foreign trends entered American culture as people adapted traditional music of other
However, this god-like nation has a huge cultural effect on smaller nations like Australia. Some countries such as South Korea and Japan have openly accepted American culture, but they manage to maintain a healthy balance with their own culture. There are plenty of things to love about America, but do we want it to take over and mask our Australian identity? Today I will be arguing against the Americanisation of our Australia. Australia is known to have a large cultural diversity with a fair amount of European and Asian culture.
This essay will discuss some of the pertinent issues dealing with the impact economically and culturally of the developing television industry during the last 1940’s and beyond. The motion picture industry already impacted by the anti-trust case resolution, chose some very interesting and unusual methods to deal with the encroaching impact of the television industry. Legal issues imposed by the courts with regard to production codes also impacted the film industry. The Film Industry and Television Many accounts published (Video on Demand - American Cinema - Film in the Television Age, n.d.) indicate that by the year 1946, 20% of Americans attended a movie every week.
After World War 2, the international television and film industries both changed drastically. In the United States, a Supreme Court decision eliminated the vertical integration of the major film studios, and at the exact same time, the postwar Baby Boom and rise of suburbia drove television to high prominence. Meanwhile, in countries such as Japan, the end of the war led to a blossoming in the diversity of their films; no longer did they solely have to create films about imperialist Japan. There, artistic cinema flourished. However, both in the United States and various other foreign countries, several narrative themes continued to reflect on tradition, conflict, and morality.
The film industry in Hollywood was no more immune from the Great Depression’s hit than any other industry. The film industry, founded on several economic and social institutions, hid the real world difficulties behind the on-screen glitz and glamour. These efforts to disguise the country’s hardships were essentially what kept American’s coming back to view motion pictures time and time again. At movie theatres, individuals were able to escape from their worries for a few hours. No other “medium has contributed more greatly than the film to the maintenance of the national morale during a period featured by revolution, riot and political turmoil in other countries”.
The “Survivalist” series is survivalist, dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction about a man named Morgan Carter, a survivalist. Morgan and his family must learn to survive after the power grids in the United States go down, leaving the world without electricity and running water. Not to mention other things that the modern world is used to having, if not takes it for granted. The author of the series A. American, uses his experience in survival communities that he has worked with for over twenty years.
The topics shown on TV had a huge influence on the way the world was viewed and directors certainly took advantage of this. They sought to express their own ideas and appeal to the youth of America
Multiculturalism In Australia Justin Lye Zhi Hao School of Arts, University Sains Malaysia New Media Design and Technology Penang, Malaysia justin.lye92@gmail.com ABSTRACT – Multiculturalism is not a new word for Australian. Australian’s population has grown significantly for the past 200 years. This paper is going to discuss about the factors behind this trend and the reasons allowed this impressive mixture of cultural groups to exist together as well as those that have created conflict, tension and marginalization.
The American film industry is one of the world’s greatest cultural forces, and it is also the driving force of the entertainment industry as an oppressive machine. First of all, film forcefully incorporates people into the system of commodity fetishism and consumerism. The cinema, especially the industrial cinema, has a strong relationship with the commodity. Films are themselves commodities and they also constantly put commodities on display. When watching movies people are bombarded with an endless stream of images of commodities.
As a young boy, I remember spending hours watching my favorite shows in the comfort of our living room. Only hoping to be amazed, every second of every minute was specifically filmed to achieve a different goal. The goal of the show was to keep me coming back to watch more, the channel to keep me watching their shows and movies, and the commercials was to buy their products. The widespread utilization of television sets in America altered the direction of the filmmaking business in America by challenging the censorship system, improving the theater experience, and use of television partnerships. The first avenue the film industry attempted to get more people back in the theaters was seeing what was different between the television boxes and the movie theaters.
Hollywood movies affect national culture in various ways. In one sense, movies could be characterized as America’s storytellers. Hollywood movies „Americanize“ global values and beliefs ,therefore they in a way diminish national culture traits and adapt and reinforce American customs. People tend to copy the ideas,customs and culture of American people or in other words they tend to acculturate. So called „Americanization“ is
Humans have a history of conquering and colonizing each other, especially with Western civilizations being particularly successful, the whole world has been influenced by those Western culture, and mostly influenced by American culture, which we call it Americanization. My hometown, China is now also undergoing Americanization both positively and negatively from different ways. In this essay, I will be more focusing on the negative impacts rather than the positive ones, which are happening in China recently, on three specific topics: Entertainment, Food and Economy. First, the ways people entertain themselves are much more Americanized now.
