Chapter 18 Visions of Freedom

Submit your answers to these exercises as determined by your instructor.

Mixed audience at movie theater (John Sloan’s “Nickelodeon,” 1907)

Credits: Granger Collection

  1. What does the nature of the audience suggest about movie theaters as places of a new social freedom?
  2. Does the painting help explain why some critics complained that movies promoted immorality?
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