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define the social meaning of war from two movies, `Casablanca` and `Gone with the Wind`

UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL MEANING OF THE FILMS CASSABLANCA ' AND GONE WITH THE WIND

From the great scientist Thomas Alva Edison marks the birth of the most brilliant inventions of all time that has changed the lives of the human race over time . That [is] the debut of the photographic equipment that can record and play series of shots accompanied by sound , popularly called motion picture . By motion picture we mean , films or movies However the real definition covers the television media as a whole starting from movies , commercials , TV series , to news

and the like

For centuries , motion pictures have portrayed a great role in influencing the lives of the human population which are dominating in the mainstream culture . Decades after decades or maybe year after year from its birth , the transition of motion pictures has evolved as technology continues to reach its infinite summit . From black and white to colored films , blasted with computer generated special effects nowadays , this has become a form of entertainment that is continuously patronized

Not only do motion pictures provide entertainment , but also it can provide education to the audience . For the great Thomas Alva Edison said that motion picture is going to revolutionize the educational system Because of this extensive array that films provide this has mark the advent of the film industry

There has been no doubt that films are continuously patronized by its consumers . And as the economy film industry booms , there has also an increase in the category or the variety of films from which consumers can choose . The types of movies classified by the Motion Picture Research Bureau in 1942 includes : Comedies (which can have subtypes such as sophisticated , slapstick , family life , musical , war pictures mystery and horror pictures , historicals and biographies , fantasies western pictures , gangster and G-men pictures , serious dramas , love stories , romantic pictures , socially significant pictures , adventure action pictures , musicals (serious , child star pictures , and (Wild animal pictures

Others have classified motion pictures according to function . Such classification includes : feature films , animated films , documentaries experimental films , industrial films , and educational films

When movies are classified according to type , this becomes more beneficial to most of the film producers . This is because they could sell out their films easily for their audience knows what to look forward to because it is much easier to familiarize generic films . This types of pictures use a series of repeating visual themes which allows the viewers to understand the collective information regarding characters , situations , and overall message of any film

Since audience always expect that there is some element of novelty in any film . Technology paved its way to allow innovation for such films to have generic consistency . In many ways , for historians , thinking about genre can expose what might have been ideologically `familiar` to viewers in a time period , and also what they might have perceived as daring or unfamiliar

Every film documents the historical accounts in a genre where people can relate themselves because this is what is happening in...

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