In the second paragraph of his chapter on motion pictures, Daniel Czitrom says the rise of movies “confronted the accepted standards of culture itself

In the second paragraph of his chapter on motion pictures, Daniel Czitrom says the rise of movies “confronted the accepted standards of culture itself.” What does he mean by this? In your brief answer, provide an example of how motion pictures challenged the accepted cultural standards of society’s elites when the movies were new. Hint: Czitrom discusses traditional definitions of culture early in the chapter, but he turns to the rise of “nickel theaters” — nickelodeons — and the negative reaction to them on pages 43-50. 

read this chapter from Daniel Czitrom on the rise of motion pictures (it starts on page 30 of this PDF).

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