Juan Monroy — Media Technologies: Movies and the 'Cycle'

Prompt

According to Tim Wu, what is “The Cycle” and how does he explain it using the example of the film industry? How did the movies with either the advent of the feature film in the 1910s or with the emergence of the Hollywood auteurs of the 1970s represent a revolution for the American movie industry? How was the revolution contained?

Submission Guidelines

Your paper must be exactly 500 words in length.
Your paper must be typed and double-spaced
Your paper must have page numbers
Your paper must include your name on the first page
Upload a PDF of your paper to the Assignments section of Blackboard by Wednesday, April 10, 5:00 PM.

Citations

For direct quotes: ”Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua" (Wu 11).
When paraphrasing: Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. (Wu 220).

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