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TL;DR: The authors examine the representations of the commercial cinema to the outlook of a particular social group, and examine them in relation to the cinema's function as an entertainment and leisure institution, in order to uncover the world view of the targeted audience.
Abstract: Recent developments in cultural history have emphasised the importance of representation in understanding social and political processes. It has been stressed that images and ideas have a definite function in the shaping of social and political relationships, and are not merely excrescences overlaying a more ’basic’ reality. Work of this type ranges from an examination of how social groups project and contest images and ideas to how, at the level of the state, procedures and categories used to order the ’real’ are generated. 1 Mine is a specific problem within this coriceptual field. Instead of correlating the representations of the commercial cinema to the outlook of a particular social group, I will examine them in relation to the cinema’s function as an entertainment and leisure institution. In any case, it is difficult to attach film-viewing to any particular audience; and even if research into the film-going audience were done with any degree of precision, this would only be one starting point for uncovering the world view of the targeted audience. That world view would have to be identified in relation to a
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