Abstract
This study will seek to discuss the essential impact of Emile Zola’s naturalism regarding the role of cinema in projecting social issues. To be clear on how cinema has got involved with social issues and has become an effective art form for distributing social messages and encouraging social changes, this study first will give a detailed historical background on the relationship between cinema itself and society. Then, it will elaborate on Emile Zola's naturalistic literature role as the first serious endeavors to raise social awareness through art and literature in the late nineteenth century. Finally, this study will focus on the first cinematic movement with an emphasis on the depiction of the working class' real life and revealing inequalities and injustices in a society based on Zola’s naturalism.
Highlights
A review of recent literature on the relationship between public awareness and the art of filmmaking demonstrates that cinema has always had an essential role to express the social matters and attention is given to the capabilities of art in general and cinema in particular to further social movements goals
According to Reed, there is a close connection between social movements, as he interprets, “the unauthorized, unofficial, anti-institutional, collective action of ordinary citizens trying to change their world” (Reed 2005:xiii) and various art forms, in that each American movement can be recognized with a specific form of art
A group of singers who raised the social awareness against segregation, and had a very crucial and effective role in sending the message to the northern states and connecting college students of the south and north together which shaped the massive campaign of the Freedom Summer of 64 (Reed 2005:23)
Summary
A review of recent literature on the relationship between public awareness and the art of filmmaking demonstrates that cinema has always had an essential role to express the social matters and attention is given to the capabilities of art in general and cinema in particular to further social movements goals.
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