Movies: How A Single Word Shaped Hollywood Cinema

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Movies: How A Single Word Shaped Hollywood Cinema
Scholars in history have explored and discussed cinema and media studies in various
aspects. One of the important discussion of the scholars has been Hollywood’s dominance in the
movie industry. For years, Hollywood has been one of the major sources of films that has its
audiences from across the globe. However, there is a concern that states that being the most
influencing and dominating industry it has been misleading audiences by producing films that do
not have depth, authenticity, aesthetic factors, reason and worth of being produced. In the same
aspect the paper aims to discuss an article, Movies: How a Single Word Shaped Hollywood
Cinema. The paper will discuss the article and analyze it along the strengths of the articles.
The term ‘movies’ is used widely without much thought commonly. It is assumed by the
etymologists that the term ‘movie’ came into existence from the term ‘moving picture’ only in
the shortened form. In the cinematographic sense, the shortened term began becoming popular.
While films are referred to an artist’s work, the movie is not always associated with the artist.
According to the article, there has been a corruption of the early cinema phrase, ‘moving
picture’. The term has been substituted by the slang word ‘movie’ during the nickelodeon era.
Although the term was initiated by a small number of people, the most common are anonymous
American. The term ‘movie’ soon became the most favoured term used by their peers. Although
it was encountered with resistance and disdain from the film industry, it gained popularity. The

word was considered to be highly undignified. Despite several efforts in order to halt the massive
usage of the term, the word ‘movie’ survived. The word was able to develop an important
relational quality with the cinemas of Hollywood. Although many critics, scholars and students
abstained from using the term, the term remained a key example that reflects the influence and
power that American film possesses over the audiences.
The article, Movies: How a Single Word Shaped Hollywood Cinema is an article that
discusses the impact of American films on the audiences. The initiation of the discussion is about
the ways the term ‘movie’ become so popular even though it is considered to be an undignified
word. The early history of film production and marketing suggests that audiences hold more
power to change than films. The power of the audience can be observed by the single term
‘movie’ the term was first used in the greatest single retarding influence in the history of the
motion picture. The article has provided an excellent beginning that states the main topic of
discussion. The way the word gain popularity has been discussed in details. The term did not
exist and was even considered to be one informal word. Whenever the term was used, it
conveyed a certain inclined message associated with the term. However, in a number of books
the term was used and it was certainly not a term that was supposed to be limited. In America,
people hardly made use of it. The article presented the perspective of the criticisms who were in
the opinion that it was due to the consistency feature of the monograph that was an emphasis on
audiences, culture and exhibitions. Also, the geographic focus in these books is the United
States. The place that is considered to be the place that originated the term ‘movie’ by the
‘moving picture’. The article covers diverse areas related to the topic that would help to
understand and looking at the phenomenon from various aspects. The articles discuss the quest
for nomenclature. The way during the early cinema periods that desired for a nomenclature was