Media hands us our interest?

I am a student who majors in film and video, and these questions arouse in my mind seldom. The reason being because, it takes the fun out of watching movies; so I guess you could consider me a mindless zombie in that aspect. Since were on the topic, I'll rather speak on the issue dealing with media large influential position in our common interest with entertainment. Growing up; all I did was play video games and watch movies. The reason being, because I was always in the house, and never was part of the neighborhood crowd. As a result, movies became my own personal best friend. This is just to give you, a better understanding of the desire I had and still have in me to watch films. One thing this question did for me, is forced me out of my comfort zone, by actually helping me to realize why I like certain films.

The question was; are people influenced by the production of media, to be attracted to what they are entertained to watch. I could not answer this question, with a simple yes or no answer. The reason is quite complex in my opinion, because people have a major role in society. It's what the term derived from, the media consist of people; metaphorically speaking, that have hands on the minds of society. The way they do this, is by knowing the people's common interest, and part of it is because its also part of there interest. On the other hand, there is one portion of the reading which explains the process of advertisers doing research to convince consumers in various ways to purchase products. Maybe the same method, is being used on our minds while watching films. Modanna said something that really sticks out to me, which was whenever you show things to people a certain amount of times, it becomes normal for them. When we repeatedly watch films, and it constantly gets produced, these are signs that are only results from an on going cycle.