Cinema
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The cinema is a major mass media in the United States. Films produced by Hollywood (almost synonymous for American cinema) are circulated throughout the world. While a diverse variety of genres exist, comedies, dramas, and action films are most popular.
The Hollywood cinema industry has been very influential on American culture, and others such as Bollywood has striven to emulate the American model.
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Famous quotes containing the word cinema:
“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)