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Cinema as an artwork form and a technology which has best existed for a hundred years. Primitive cinema gadgets appeared and were used inside the Nineties, nearly concurrently, within the USA, France, Germany, and Great Britain. inside two decades, cinema had unfold all over the world; It had advanced state-of-the-art technology and become properly on its manner to turning into a first-rate enterprise that provided the most famous shape of entertainment to city audiences round the arena and attracted the eye of marketers, artists, scientists and politicians. The film medium started out for use for education, propaganda and clinical research in addition to amusement. Initially a combination of elements which includes vaudeville, popular melodrama, and illustrated lecture, it fast won inventive distinction and is now beginning to fade, along with other kinds of mass media and amusement which have emerged alongside it to threaten its hegemony. In the new millennium, India, the US, China, Nigeria, and Japan have end up foremost filmmaking facilities round the world. Cutting-edge filmmaking strategies are based on absolute creativity and superior technological programs. The arrival of coloration, stereophonic sound and widescreen has made the technical understanding required of a director nowadays a lot broader and extra complex. Overseas cinema has endured to dominate filmmaking script in the twenty first century. The proposed study is an attempt to examine the representation of various entities of society in foreign cinema. The study will focus on how various societal entities were presented and misrepresented in cinema. This study will explore on how with changing times, society-based cinemas started gaining popularity.
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To Cite this Article: Rashid, A. F. A., Azlina, S., & Mohaideen, A. R. (2023). Foreign Cinema and its Representation of Society and its Entity. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13(3), 1355 – 1366.
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