In what ways can the invention of cinema be seen to reflect the tensions and conflicts of turn of the century America? Cinema reflects events of the time, films are based around events of the era and concern events and affairs that the money paying public are interested in and can relate to. The cinema of the past, and to some extent that of today, was based around “economic catastrophes, wars, revolutions, counterrevolution, colonization,and …showed first 75 words of 425 total…

…showed last 75 words of 425 total…Path, which “shows an innocent country girl inexorably dragged into big city vice.” (Christie) These films and others, which depicted similar events, touched a ‘nerve’ in America, as the US was anxious about corruption in society, which was shown perfectly by the actions of the police officer in A Legal Hold Up. The cinema at the turn of the century also reflected “a real and persistent struggle to square Protestant morality with aggressive morality.” (Christie)