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  2. Social impact entertainment - Wikipedia

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    Social Impact Entertainment on the Development-Entertainment spectrum, [1] with its closest neighbor Entertainment-Education Social impact entertainment (SIE) is "all storytelling that is self-aware of its potential impact on its audiences and incorporates that knowledge to effect positive change at the individual, local, or global scale on one or more social issues", as defined by the SIE ...

  3. Social problem film - Wikipedia

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    A social problem film is a narrative film that integrates a larger social conflict into the individual conflict between its characters. In the context of the United States and of Hollywood, the genre is defined by fictionalized depictions of social crises set in realistic American domestic or institutionalized settings.

  4. Social aspects of television - Wikipedia

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    The medium of television has had many influences on society since its inception. The belief that this impact has been dramatic has been largely unchallenged in media theory since its inception. However, there is much dispute as to what those effects are, how serious the ramifications are and if these effects are more or less evolutionary with ...

  5. Video essay - Wikipedia

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    Häxan (1922), a horror essay film about the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft. A film essay (also essay film or cinematic essay) consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film literally being a cinematic accompaniment to a narrator reading an essay. [9]

  6. Influence of mass media - Wikipedia

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    It is very easy for a movie producer to become so caught up in making their films look artistic that they begin to make their audiences indifferent to the true horror taking place on screen. [ 50 ] Cognitive effects include an increased belief of potential violence in the real world from watching violent media content leading to anxiety about ...

  7. Film theory - Wikipedia

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    Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]

  8. 2001: A Space Odyssey in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The influence of 2001 on subsequent filmmakers is considerable.Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and others, including many special effects technicians, discuss the impact the film has had on them in a featurette titled Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001, included in the 2007 DVD release of the film.

  9. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema - Wikipedia

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    Many of those movies were brilliantly reviewed. You know, The Fabelmans is one of the best reviewed movies of the year. It's taken $15 million at the U.S. box office. It's nearly finished its theatrical run. What hope is there for anyone? I've made a Bond movie; I made 1917 — which is an event movie but non-franchise; and I make a small movie ...