Sociology of film : studies and documents (1946)

Record Details:

Title:
Sociology of film : studies and documents
Date:
1946
Publisher:
London : Faber and Faber Limited
Volume:
Sociology of film : studies and documents
Leaf #:
00031
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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PERSPECTIVES OF A SOCIOLOGY OF FILM Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics or Thomas's Summae will realise. Today value patterns are visualised on the screen, but in the absence of responsible thought and attention to challenge and criticise them, they must remain stale and vague. This is, perhaps, the reason why at present even good contemporary feature films so readily glorify the social status quo of the society in which we live. Finally: once, such steps as envisaged here are taken, film directors, producers, distributors, exhibitors, will have a more articulate idea of what the public wants and it might be possible thereby to raise film standards. It is true that many products of our contemporary film industry represent for our age what the Roman circus meant for the declining Roman Empire: the danger is real and imminent. If we persist in our academic remoteness from film as massinfluence, the doom of our civilisation is certain. Film is symptom and cause. But this pessimistic trend is only a warning. It only illustrates the power of the film medium — as popular art and educational instrument — to serve positive ends if responsibly developed. 25