Media

Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you investigate the interrelationship between culture and the visual entertainment media, such as television and film. Include answers to the following questions:

* I read on a site that in the past quarter century, the study of film has witnessed evolutionary changes in cinematic forms. Current historical and theoretical research addresses the social, aesthetic, and economic importance of cinema for the history of the twentieth century and at the beginning of a new century, television, video, and the digital arts, as well as new forms of performance, design, and contemporary art, are challenging cinema to adapt and to find new forms of representation. The global reach of the film/media industries challenge us to comprehend how the screen arts are changing our understanding of culture and society, and how cultural knowledge and experience are conveyed through moving images. The impact of new imaging technologies on the history and development of science is equally important, presenting new challenges for the study of image making and reception in the 21st century. Visual entertainment media has a role in shaping American culture and values. As people watches television, goes to movies, everywhere there are advertisement, all these effects the mind, as well as the culture. Media has also shaped America in most all ways. The violence, the passion, all stems from media entertainment. In 1920, radio quickly became a popular medium of providing news and entertainment to the masses in their homes. When it comes to the social influences of the visual entertainment media I feel that television is mostly negative. It dulls people's senses and lowers their creativity. It is passive watching rather than playing or doing and the news focuses on what's exciting and thrilling. A mental disease of our times not confined to news or to visual media but certainly virulent there, which is mostly painful and/or...