Download or read book Movies as Mass Communication written by Garth Jowett and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the first edition of Movies as Mass Communication in 1980, cinema has been incorporated into academic discussions of the mainstream mass media. Most introductory `media and society' courses now include a section on the cinema. In this second edition, Professors Jowett and Linton address both the persistent tendency to position the cinema as a separate form of entertainment with a specialized audience, and the extensive interrelationships between the cinema and other media. The authors also examine the economic, sociological, psychological and political aspects of film.