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As one of the most pervasive and influential popular arts, the movies feed into and off of the rest of the culture in various ways. ███

Intro to Topic · Movies and pop culture

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Historical Context · Mutually beneficial relationship between Hollywood and the press

Hollywood makes the movies. The press promotes them. Both benefit but author claims that benefit to the press is more important.

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Present Day · Interdependent mass-media entertainment industry

Mass media does most of the promotional work for Hollywood because they are economically incentivized to do so.

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Problem · Mass media affects creation of new films

Why is this a problem?

Problem · Narrow focus on profit

The suits are more frequently making the artistic choices that the artists should be making.

(New) Problem · Profit is based on publicity, not on whether the movie connects with audience

Consequence / Prediction · Emotionally powerful movies will be increasingly rare

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Before this phrase, the author pointed out that movie studios realized they could profit from publicity related to the private lives of actors. Then, the author points out that the press could benefit too from the studios’ promotion of new films. So “cross-fertilization” refers to the way in which both the press and the movie studios benefit from each other’s actions.

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There’s no evidence that the phrase refers to competition.

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There’s no evidence that the phrase relates to other kinds of art.

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This wouldn’t make sense, because we’re already told earlier in the paragraph that studios have already benefited from the publicity related to actors’ public lives.

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This best captures the meaning. The press benefits from studios, and the studios benefit from the press.

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There’s no evidence that the phrase relates to the relationship between agents and the press.

PrepTest 106 - Section 4 - Passage 4 - Question 24

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