Others argue the opposite. It inhibits the imagination showing us one possibility that when viewed with our own eyes becomes real in itself. For example, violence as a socially sanctioned reaction to a problem. Either way, no one argues that it does not have an effect on society. This is not an art class .
Film is at the least a mass art.
Therefore the emphasis is on films produced for mass consumption. You are not here to watch a film as a piece of entertainment, but rather as a social artifact revealing of the socio-historical context in which it was produced and consumed. Therefore, the primary methodology we will be using in this course is content analysis the content refers to words, meanings, pictures, symbols, ideas, themes or any message that can be communicated. We are more concerned here with qualitative content analysis the meaning within the film rather than the quantitative which involves counting of words, visuals, etc. Today, no-one is immune to the cinema.