Sign up for my newsletter. Youtube channel updates, written reviews, and exclusive content -- free! -- http://eepurl.com/hbfI6v This brief video introduces you to a common textbook concept: a continuum of styles of film based on their likeness to reality. The continuum runs from documentaries, which simulate how things look and sound, to abstract art, which is high concept and may describe how things are perceived by a subject. The video talks about how Hollywood has used both ends of the spectrum to craft hit movies, in a style known as classicism. Please follow me on Twitter for video releases and reviews: https://twitter.com/DrJoshMatthews Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshmatthews/ Understanding Movies 101 Course: https://joshmatthews.org/learn-more-about-movies-a-short-video-course/ The Great Movies Series: https://joshmatthews.org/what-makes-this-movie-great-list-of-videos/ Comprehensive List of the Great Movies Series: https://joshmatthews.org/what-makes-this-movie-great-list-of-videos/ Movie Cliches Series -- Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBCXFM1qmj4 The Great Directors Series -- Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ChqM-3knDs Shot for Shot Analyses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syos3JN41mM Great Science-Fiction Movie List: https://joshmatthews.org/great-science-fiction-movies-and-tv/ Other Movie Lists: https://joshmatthews.org/topics/movie-lists/ Disclaimer: All reasonable comments are welcome, including reasoned disagreements. You will be banned for foolish talk, harassment, and hate speech on sight; it's a tremendous waste of life. I believe in freedom of association and, by extension, freedom of dissociation from you.