Communications Sector

American Media Industry and its Effects

American Media Industry and its Effects

The film Industry

The film industry and television in American employed about 63,000 people and paid approximately $ 5 billion in wages in 2008, making it the second film industry in importance in the country after California, according to a report released today by Thomas P . DiNapoli, State Comptroller of American . The city of American is the primary beneficiary of industry presence, with more than two thirds of all jobs in film and television production are within the five boroughs.

While, the classic film consists of a system of conventions which in turn constitute the film productions tradition. Whereas, the modern film, is formed by the contributions of individual artists who offer elements derived from his personal vision of the expressive possibilities of film language. Postmodernism appropriates existing cultural images to reveal the artificiality, the lack of originality and character of the prevailing conventional to criticize forms of social representation and hegemonic ideologies. It is subverting notions whereby realistic representations are objective and transparent portraits of reality. Postmodern artists try to show that all meanings are socially and historically constructed. At the same time, brazenly steal images, demystify the modernist notion concerning the artistic genius, originality and autonomy of language, arguing that no one escapes language historically constructed intersexual network (Olson, 2006, p. 439-441). The classic film based on respect for the conventions on the use of audiovisual resources (especially with regard to the point of view, visual composition, editing, the relationship between image and sound, and broad traditions), while modern film production exists because of experimental forms of directors with an unusual perspective, which might call his own idiolect film.

Modern film production is the opposite of traditional film production. Each modern film arises from the view of an artist, and their nature is breaking with previous tradition and tradition is the breaking of the same contemporary film production. By definition, there can be no rule for creating a modern movie, although some forms can be recognized split that come to coincide at some point in the history of film production (such as Italian neo-realism in the 1940s, French New Wave in the early 1960, the New German Film production in the 1970s or the New Mexican Film production in the early XXI).

Starting in contemporary film production tends to correspond to what the Russian formalists called a descriptive beginning, which define by them as starting at a very close and then move to a more open. This beginning can be bewildering and confusing to the viewer, which intensifies the feeling of entering a chaotic space in which there is not necessarily a sequential order. This beginning, therefore, entirely without plot of predestination, which is not necessarily related to the end.

The visual resources of modern film production, in film production history, neutralized editorial instance the systematic use of sequence shot, increased visual polysemy by using a large depth of field, and the use of expressionistic techniques, surreal or otherwise breaking ...