Why The Movies Don't Feel The Same Anymore

Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/thomasflight Hollywood faces the largest crisis its seen since 1950. This is the story of the shifting role cinema plays in our culture and what it needs to do to stay relevant. Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thomasflight Sources: Books: Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan Amusing Ourselves To Death, Neil Postman Media Ecology, Lance Strate Films/TV: The Exorcist (1973) Jaws (1975) Sinners (2025) Room 666 (1882) Big Media in America - National Education Television (1959) This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message (1967) Neil Postman Interview - CSPAN (1988) March of The Movies - March of Time (1949) Articles: The Fordham Experiment, Eric McLuhan Pautz, Michelle C., "The Decline in Average Weekly Cinema Attendance, 1930-2000" (2002). Political Science Faculty Publications Theatrical Market Statistics (2009) - MPAA Is Hollywood Soft Censoring Palestinian Art? - NPR Report of the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, 1928 What Is Television Doing to Us? Jack Gould, The New York Times June 12, 1949 Additional Archival Footage provided by Getty Images // FIND MY WORK // -Early Access (Ad Free) on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/thomasflight -Read my Newsletter: https://www.seeingthroughfilm.com/ -Reviews on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thomasflight -Watch My Experimental Documentary: https://labyrinthion.com -Website: http://www.thomasflight.com // FOLLOW ME // - Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/thomasflight/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thomasflight - Twitter: https://twitter.com/thomasflight - Substack: https://thomasflight.substack.com/ // CONTACT // -Sponsorship and Business inquiries: thomasflight@nebula.tv -Questions, feedback, anything else: contact@thomasflight.com -FAQ: https://www.thomasflight.com/faq // GEAR I USE // https://thomasflight.com/gear Chapters: 0:00 "The Devil Made Her Did It" 5:01 Phonevision 9:31 Hollywood In Crisis... Again 15:08 What is Media Ecology? 23:08 Amusing Ourselves To Death 26:50 The Message of Cinema 31:37 the hypermodern 42:11 "Bad Habits May Result" 47:16 An unofficial guide to saving cinema #ThomasFlight #VideoEssay