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:
“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)
“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)
“If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinema ... has access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)