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The Movie Industry and Socialization

By: Kali Marcott

What is Socialization?

Simply put, socialization is norms and patterns that society agrees are fit and normal. They are what people in the society are expected to do and how they should act.

Gender Roles Gender roles are constantly being

presented to viewers on everything they see, from advertisements, TV shows, movies, cartoons, and so on.

The roles exist because society is accepting them.

Young kids are primary targets for gender roles especially when it comes to toys. Girls are always shown to play with babies, barbies, pink and soft, while boys are showed to play with cars, action figures, and tool sets.

Gender Roles cont. When children are exposed over and over to

the roles that they are “supposed” to be a part of, their minds are contorted to think that is the only way. This is how the media and the movie industry are gaining control over the audiences.

Girls are shown in predominantly soft spoken, house wife type, and emotionally situations where boys are shown in macho man, athletic, and hands on situations.

At such young ages, children are being socialized into what they should be doing in society. This can teach positive things but it also leaves the door open for those who don’t fit such tight knit roles.

Bullying becomes an issue and if you’re different or if you don’t fit the “norm” you are the target just because the media has engulfed the young minds of your peers.

That being said… Such power to be able to manipulate the mind

of children, the movie industry has taken their power and use it to manipulate the thoughts and opinions of the adult viewers as well.

Movies are usually based off of something real or something that has happened and then sometimes they are made with twists on them; this enables the audience to feel sympathy for possibly the “good country” as opposed to the enemy.

Other countries.. Some see the movie industry as so

powerful with its persuasion and ideas that they are banned in other countries.

In North Korea, dozens of people have been executed recently due to them watching foreign films. Their government sees the films as a tool to alter their people’s thoughts that they made it against the law to do this.

Government and movies

In the U.S. the movie industry creates and produces movies that generally are pro government, unlike other countries like North Korea.

When young minds watch movies that show the government as valiant, and strong and as a friend to the people, it helps alter the perception of the young audience to think more favorably of our own government in the U.S.

Examples

Socialization to extreme situations…

Although, there are those who argue that the movie industry is out to brainwash everyone and there are those who think the movie industry is nothing more than entertainment.

With that being said, what people, at least in the United States, think to be entertaining may not always be something so delightful and pleasant.

The trends are what people sought to watch.

Love, crime and sex are the three commodities that seem to be a reoccurring theme in movies, and that is because that is what people want to see.

For people of all ages, they see the most exposure to violence in movies. Some could argue that video games are a huge outlet to crime and violence as well.

It would appear that deviants had some sort of predisposition, but it turns out that exposure to movies wasn’t the cause from crime and violence.

Reoccurring themes A huge downside with the constant

reoccurring themes of love, crime, and violence, is that it desensitizes people to those situations.

Horror films are always a thrill seek and people continually go see them which draws the question, why would we pay to go see a slasher flick where annoying teenagers get killed? This completely ties back into the psyche factor.

Examples

Movies are movies Violence is exposed to the audience without

question in movies, but it is also highly exaggerated because it is just that, a movie.

No aftermath of what is going to happen to the characters is thought about, the plan seems to be so simple, and it’s as if the love, crime, and violence are such easy and simple ideas that can be so easily handled.

Positive or Negative With the socialization of society, the

movies that are created for the public can be either positive or negative. Especially now, movies really almost have no boundaries of what they can be about. Body dismorphia teaches people to hate themselves, anti-religion movies can depict religion poorly, and mobster movies can glorify a bad way to live because it looks so good.

Technically, movies do have an impact on the psyche of it’s audience. It can skew their outlook on life, but in the end hopefully just continue to stay as entertainment.

Mass Communication

The movie industry is so powerful because so many different audiences have the ability to see different movies.

Each movie contains its own message, and with that it communicates an idea.

People can interpret the idea presented in many different ways and this is where misunderstandings can really come into play.

Mass Comm. Cont. With communication, we know that

sometimes the ideas are not clearly understood by the other party. It can misconstrue the idea that was trying to be expressed and completely alter the meaning which can cause tension between parties.

Being as the movie industry can’t respond to it’s audiences, the audience has the interpretation of the idea that they have just seen, and no further explanation. They now can do with the information what they will.

Access. Due to so many people being able to

have access to see different movies, this allows a different form of art to be expressed and shared.

Reflection, discussion, and education sit right along side of entertainment when it comes the movie industry.

History, theories, documentaries, and so much more are all accessible agents from the movie industry and by being a part of mass communication, multiple people have the power to engage in it.

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