Find and read aloud those parts of the texts which express the viewpoints given below.

A: “In some respects the motion picture is the American art par excellence. For a long time Hollywood produces new films with an unbelievable speed. The slogan “The Art for art’s sake” is placed by a steady stream of the high quality movie hits. Different countries are pervaded with all sort of American-made thrillers, westerners, spy-films, horror-films, … the like which have a pernicious influence on young people. In the middle of the 20^th century some critics argued that the American film, precisely because its need to please a mass audience had helped it break out of the limiting gentility of the European cinema, had a vitality and a set of masters without equal in the world.”

B: “The British film industry is widely acknowledged to have undergone a revival. British films, actors, creative and technical film services have been achieving notable successes at international film festivals. The important thing about the British film industry is that the industry is promoted by the British film Institute. The Institute offers direct financial and technical help to new and experienced film-makers who cannot find support elsewhere, insists on having artistic control of pictures. In other words, it controls the script, the cast, the shooting and the completion of the picture.”

The film-makers are extremely commercial-minded and regard the properties they have as commercial properties.

Commercial art impede the young talented film writers, actors and producers in their effort to produce really good films.

The British films will be in the international prize-winning category.

In Britain the local authorities have powers to license cinemas and censor films.

The American film industry has a motto “The Art for art’s sake”

9. Work in groups. Arrange your own material about the latest films you think to be popular. Make a presentation of the films you have chosen.

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