Entertainment

INDIAN FILM INDUSTRY ANALYSIS(growth) The Indian Film Industry has been one of the oldest segments of the Indian entertainment industry. The Lumiere Brothers brought motion pictures to India in 1896, and since then there has been no looking back. Today, India has the world's biggest movie industry that churns out around one thousand movies each year. The Indian Film Industry is witnessing mark improvements on all spheres - from the technology used in making films to the themes of the movies, exhibition

1.Linkage One of the functions of mass media is linkage. Mass media is able to join different elements of society that are not directly connected. For example, mass advertising attempts to link the needs of buyers with the products of sellers. Legislators may try to keep in touch with constituent’s feelings by reading their hometown papers. Voters learn about the doings of their elected officials through newspapers, TV, radio and websites. Another type of linkage occurs when geographically separated

Commercial Media and the Function of Entertainment The most important function the media should provide is entertainment. In the book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, by Jenkins Henry, the author reveals the applicable function of the media, in this case entertainment, which enables users to access different media products (Jenkins 16). This function, which is mainly meant for pleasure, can be provided in different ways. Commercial media is one of the ways of showing the function

Captured, kidnapped, and rescued, Paul Greengrass knows precisely how to seize his audience’s attention. Not only did I watch this movie with my eyes and mouth wide open, but I kept thinking to myself, “This actually happened in real life!” Little did I know Captain Philips was no hero. Not only was it his fault the ship was captured from getting too close to the Somalia Coast and ignoring warning emails, but he never truly gave up himself to the pirates. According to the article “Crew Members: ‘Captain

The 1940’s Entertainment The entertainment of the 1940s consisted of Hollywood, radio personalities and the musicians, all in the benefit of the country in the war. By the 1940s radio had become a mass medium, meaning that the radio was a device that had a mass audience. Movies Around this time another popular form of entertainment was movies. The movies were visited by about ninety million Americans per weekend during the 40s .These movies also showed many war influenced programing. An example

While we are enthusiasts of entertainment and thrilling action, we are parental figures to the next generation of children on their way. Violence presented in media potentially affects children through vivid depictions of gore and tragedy, blurring the line between reality and fictionalized drama. The film industry and its’ supporters thrive off of these displays, drawing in crowds of spectators which provide the industry with an extraordinary amount of profit. Although many of these parents are

Overall, my summer internship at Storyville Entertainment was a positive experience. My primary goal going into the internship was to learn more about the development process. At Storyville, I watched my supervisors navigate through development beginning with the initial pitch. For example, I watched Storyville’s head of development brainstorm ideas for a specific network during my first week as an intern. Throughout the weeks, I helped her research potential hosts, locations, and real-life examples

who are famous or infamous there is still a need to be entertained. In the past this entertainment came from men and women who achieved something great, now it comes from them being involved in entertainment such as reality television programs, and those who are just simply famous. The author, Marcus S. Levy, questions the enigma why society is entertained by those who entertain us. The possibility entertainment is an addiction for people the same way drugs or alcohol is. Levy shares his thoughts

Jackson is making a comparison to human nature. It is prominent in all human civilizations to take a chance as a source of entertainment and as this chance is taken, something is both won and lost.      As long as human civilization has existed, so has the idea of death or suffering, or taking a chance of death or suffering, as a form of entertainment. This can be traced back as far the day of the Roman gladiator, when

The concept humor refers to the state of funniness and for people to be humorous they should find a particular action or state of affairs funny. Social life, gender, age, race, educational level, political attitudes, and mood of an individual influence humor. This terminology can be subjective as well as objective. In this respect, the definition of what constitutes humor is unlimited (Clark 20-23). According to Aristotle, humor is handy in political moderation, for it makes one’s character moderate