TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture The dynamics of mass communication: Media in the digital age - Chapter 9

Chapter 9 - Motion pictures. explain how the motion picture industry developed, describe how the studios dominated the industry, discuss how television affected the film industry and its audience, understand the implications that digital moviemaking holds for the industry, explain how the digital age is affecting film, describe the components of the movie industry and how a motion picture is produced. | Motion Pictures Chapter 9 © 2009, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. CHAPTER OUTLINE History of the Motion Picture Motion Pictures in the Digital Age Defining Features of Motion Pictures Organization of the Film Industry Ownership in the Film Industry Producing Motion Pictures Economics Feedback Movies at Home HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE Motion pictures (including TV) are possible because of: Phi phenomenon (consecutive light sources appear to be single source that moves) Persistence of vision (see image for split second after it has disappeared) The Edison Lab Thomas Edison & William Dickson Edison thought profits would come from hardware sales Kinetoscope (1889) Camera and viewing device Sprocket-fed film Vitascope (1896) Edison’s projection-version Generated novelty interest, didn’t last The Nickelodeons Public interest rekindled when films began to be used to tell a story (narrative films) Stationary cameras (Melies’ A Trip to the Moon) .

• PR - Truyền thông
• Mass communication
• Truyền thông đại chúng
• Media in the digital age
• Mass media
• Communication process
• Motion pictures
• The digital age
• Dynamics of mass communication
• Perspectives on mass communication
• Functions of mass communication
• Functional analysis
• Mass media industry
• Social effects
• Interpersonal communication
• Digital age
• Mass communication effects
• Conquering space
• Cultural context
• Electronic media
• Sound recording