The Influence Of Popular Culture And News Media Flashcards
What did Lewis Allen say in his 1931 only yesterday magazine ?
“Within a decade the radio and the movie nationalities American popular culture” he also used the phrase “mass media” for the first time
What was the most popular form of mass entertainment between the 1920s-1930 and what are the numbers involved?
Movies
1920-50 million Americans went to the movies each year (roughly half the population)
1930-100 million were going to the movies
Young Americans were the keenest moviegoers
During the early twentieth century what did movies focus on?
Social problems.
In the 1920s which big hollywood studios began to focus on fantasies,romance,consumerism ?
Fox
Warner brothers
Which source noted in 1923 that what audiences are influenced by what they see
The New York Times 1923
How did cinema impact society.
- homogenised American popular culture and thereby Influenced fashion and consumerism
- affirmed and shaped viewpoints about poverty,labour and gender
- corrupted youngsters
How did movies influence fashion and consumerism?
Americans became obsessed with the celebrities,they reflected the American dream-impoverished immigrants such as Rudolph Valentino could gain fame and fortune as a movie star.
Who was appointed to the fbi the monitor radicals who made movies about class conflict?
Edgar hoover
How did movies become more socially conservative?
More middle class and upper class Americans began to go to the movies as it is said by labour unions that movies inspired workers to strike therefore Americans became curious as to why the working class is rebelling.
What were older Americans scared for?
Movies were corrupting the youth due to ‘flapper films’ of stars such as Clara bow who was featured as a economically independent women with a liberation lifestyle.
Even off camera celebrities private life’s were scandalous.
Middle class and working class women felt their daughters had become increasingly ‘forward’
Quote from sociologist 1933 study of 2000 students
“Of course the movies made me want to rebel against my parents supervision”-16,white female
Who what and when did somebody say that “within a decade movies and radios have nationalised American popular culture”
And also used the term “‘mass media”
Lewis Allen in his 1931 only yesterday magazine
