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AMST 350H Spring ‘16 Moviegoing Assignment Movie going was a new phenomenon at the turn of the 20th century. Many downtowns in big cities, were some of the first places to show movies, and some of the first places to open up standalone movie theatres. These theatres, largely known from the Sanborn maps, gives the audience a glimpse of what downtown social life would have looked like for both whites and blacks during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movie going experience shows the…

Kendrick Lamar is a modern day Harlem Renaissance author. He talks about personal experiences with struggles he has gone through and seen and that all other blacks have gone through. He mentions the typical black stereotypes of physical features that are used to put a label on black people. His newest album has mostly this dark, depressing story like format about the battles and struggles that himself and other blacks have gone through. Though included on the album is what he claims to be the…

with movies and films, thus acting as a stimulator of growth for the Movie Theater Industry. Although the film and movie consumers around the world get satisfaction from the heavy presence of movie theatres and exhibition around the world, many investors are faced with stiff competitive rivalry thus limiting their market share in the industry. In addition, the increase of…

Option B: Technology & Film Throughout the past several decades the film industry has been known for its increasingly diversified combination of two worlds. One entailing of the unique artistic expression of producers, while the other faced by the commercialization behind funders. Within time these two sides have tugged and pulled the potentially true underlying aspects of film, creating room for a capitalistic overtaking within the industry. The empty space between expressionism and…

Introduction Windowing was originally used as the film industry’s strategy to garner more revenue based off of one film’s release dates. A film would originally get distributed in a theatrical release. There would then roughly be a four month gap, or window, between when the film was taken out of cinemas and released via DVD (Miller, 2015). In having a gap between cinema and DVD release the film industry thought it would generate ‘hype’ surrounding the film. They thought it would create this…

Introduction In the mid to late 1990’s, the term “disruptive technology” was first used by Clayton Christiansen in his Harvard Business Review article Disruptive Technology. Since then, the term has grown to encompass a great deal. People also increasingly use it to mean more than what Mr. Christiansen originally described it to be. In fact, he looks back and feels that the words he used were not the best choice to describe his theory. To gain a better understanding of what this, or any,…

which you can access them has become beneficial to our 'busy-bee ' lifestyles. While cinemas have offered the newest movies in their theaters for years, applications such as Netflix and Hulu have made movie night a…

The movie Risen is unique in the fact that it tells of the crucifixion of Christ from an initial non-believer 's perspective. I have never viewed a religious movie before, whether it be at home or in a theatre. I chose to see Risen in the theatre on a Saturday night in order to observe not only the film itself, but the atmosphere in general, including the drive both to and from the theatre. From noisy and crowded to quiet and focused, by the end of Risen, the viewer’s reactions, including my own…

It didn’t feel illegal, but there was certainly a chilling aura to knowing that you were viewing what one-sixth of the world was forbidden to see. A small community of thirty-nine people attended a double feature on Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 7:00PM in Angell Auditorium A to view “Three Songs of ‘Exile’: Independent Chinese Filmmakers Far from Home.” The audience, mostly comprised of older men and women of Asian descent, seemed to all be attracted together to view this film, and casual chatter…

attendance, as a percentage of the population, is among the lowest it has ever been. This paper will seek to explain this conundrum by examining forces that have impacted the demand of viewing movies at cinemas throughout history. The Origins of Movie Theaters Various devices for displaying crude animations and slideshows existed since the 17th century; however, it was not until the late 1800s that film, as it is known today, came into existence. One of the earliest devices for viewing these…