The Evolution Of Cinema
This seminar explored how cinema has changed since it's early years in the 1880's. By following it's growth as an industry, we can see a new format called exploitation cinema branch off and cultivate its own area of moving image entertainment. “An exploitation film is any film which tries to succeed financially by exploiting a current trend, a niche genre, or a lurid subject matter". Through decades, sex, violence and romance have been heavily exploited into, in most instances, low-quality B movies:
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| The evolution of cinema, even today, is constantly alternating between independence and ownership. |
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| During the great depression, the American population was desperate for escapism. At this time, Pulp Novels and radio plays became popular for their affordability. Cinema's used exploitation cinema (in the form of B movies) to get people into the theatres. |
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