Film Theory: The Evolution Of Film In Popular Culture

With the evolution of technology rapidly increasing and becoming more and more advanced, in correlation, the accepted knowledge concerning film and media are also changing just as fast. Since the birth of the cinema and Hollywood style movies, many philosophers and theorists have shared their knowledge concerning film theory. However many theories are having to be updated and even ruled out due to the advancement in technology. For many years these theories were commonly accepted with minor changes. Not only does technology affect film through technical and aesthetic ways, but it also has awoken many questions involving political correctness and the reflection of film in popular culture. Scholars are researching the public’s attitude and …show more content…
With such a wide array of films and products of media, film has drastically changed since its creation, thus raising the skepticism in the application of film theory to future film and media products. With this in mind, popular culture is directly reflected in the evolution of modern film theories.

In each piece of research the authors, in one way or another, examine the origins of film theory and begin to compare them to modern technology. The authors agree upon the idea that film theory needs to be updated and or expanded to fit modern times. In order to change, advance, and produce cinema there had to be an understanding of it. From the beginning scholars, theorists and philosophers have created theories around cinema of many sorts. Originally, film theory was used as a way of understanding film’s relationship to reality, viewers, arts, humanities and society as a …show more content…
However with growth in technology theories have branched way beyond blending reality. Scholars, theorist and philosophers must advance film theory to include the diversity of popular culture and technology. It is important to understand the origins of film theory to grasp present and future film theories. Along with understanding film theory we must be well prepared to tackle the future of popular culture and technology to be able to keep film theory updated and beneficial. We must develop a way of explaining film through theory that will be true with the advancement of technology and popular culture. Clearly popular culture is present in film theory, but to better understand how it effects film theory we must research more on the rapid growth in trends in popular culture. By doing this we can examine how the two directly correlate and more effectively deliver media and film production to the public with out