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Write an essay analysing the rise of Hollywood Cinema in relation to this statement, paying particular attention to the factors that led to Hollywood’s ascendancy over the worlds cinema screens.
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Emma Smith IMS1 Q. 'AMERICAN ASCENDANCY IN WORLD CINEMA WAS ESTABLISHED AT SUCH AN EARLY STAGE, THAT IT WAS EASY TO OVERLOOK THE FACT THAT IT DID NOT ALWAYS EXIST' (Lyn Gorman and David McLean, Media and Society in the 20th century, Blackwell, 2003, P32) Write an essay analysing the rise of Hollywood Cinema in relation to this statement, paying particular attention to the factors that led to Hollywood's ascendancy over the worlds cinema screens. The dawn of the cinema came at the end of the 19th century in the USA, when Thomas A Edison patented the crude Kinetoscope movie projector - a contraption that involved running a photographic film past a light source, giving the illusion of movement, and in the beginning this was viewed in a 'peepshow box' mainly at fairgrounds. Since this invention, great advances have been made in technology, and cinema plays a role in peoples lives globally. However,...
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