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.
####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