ABSTRACT
The early cinema experience – the creation of demand As the initially perhaps rather strange nature of film came to be accepted during the early 1900s, so too the practice of going out to watch movies as a form of entertainment came to be accepted socially and thought of as a normal, everyday experience. However, in studying the film industry it is as well to remember
This chapter will be particularly relevant to FM2: British and American Film – Producers and Audiences for the WJEC AS level in Film Studies. Although the particular focus will be on audiences as fans and consumers of films, we will need to explore the roles of both producers and audiences, since the dependent relationship between the two is crucial to the industry.
