... other movie-producing nation. The birth of the feature film was essentially linked to the birth of Hollywood, and Hollywood's success has led the world audience to now equate American cinema with film itself. Nowadays, the mass audience has become the market place for American mass production of consumer goods, and this audience are seen to consume media and mass communication as a staple of their daily lives. America is known as being one of, if not the, most powerful countries in the world, and everything in American cinema seems to be done to meet the needs of the 'corporate culture' which has emerged throughout this time. 'American movies have provided audiences with some of the most compelling, most abiding representations of the mental and physical conditions of our lives'1 The advent of Edison's kinetoscope in 1893, was seen more as a working class pleasure and middle class audiences were not ...

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