Why The Movies Don't Feel The Same Anymore
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Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/thomasflight Hollywood faces the largest crisis its seen since 1950. This is the story of the shifting role cinema plays in our culture and what it needs to do to stay relevant. Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thomasflight Sources: Books: Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan Amusing Ourselves To Death, Neil Postman Media Ecology, Lance Strate Films/TV: The Exorcist (1973) Jaws (1975) Sinners (2025) Room 666 (1882) Big Media in America - National Education Television (1959) This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message (1967) Neil Postman Interview - CSPAN (1988) March of The Movies - March of Time (1949) Articles: The Fordham Experiment, Eric McLuhan Pautz, Michelle C., "The Decline in Average Weekly Cinema Attendance, 1930-2000" (2002). Political Science Faculty Pu
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