The youngest films in the film industry were not a simple matter of creative value, but moderately scientific creations. In the film-making era of the early 20th century, a group of screenwriters, producers, and directors gradually transformed film into an intermediate tool of expression. A key player in the American film industry was Cecil B. Demille, an American director and producer, known for his renowned films in both the silent and post-silent eras. DeMille is considered a visionary of the film industry, venturing into uncharted territories of cinema and pushing social norms. Before his career as a filmmaker, the film industry was on the verge of entering a new period of modernism. The old attitude of citizens, brought about by Victorianism in the 19th century, was gradually fading. The Victorian era was comprised of “virtues” of sexual repression and restriction…. a code of positive morality that includes perseverance and an aversion to idleness; a sense of moral uniformity…self-control, discipline, self-confidence, [and] self-sufficiency” (Belton 96). In other words, the era produced closed-minded individuals who were rigid in the face of change and new ideas. As DeMille began his path in the world of cinema, he highlighted a subset of upcoming individuals and showcased the growing diversity of the American population. Cecil B. DeMille influenced American cinema to embrace more diverse storylines that audiences had never seen before, through the implementation of foreign actors and characters in his films and intertwined them into his theatrical intrigues.DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts. and was born into an artistically inclined family. DeMille's father and...... middle of paper......2004. Print. “Carmen’s bullfight scene will be unique. » Los Angeles Times. July 9, 1915: III4. Print.Higashi, Sumiko. Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era. Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1994. Print. Marchetti, Gina. "'They worship money and prejudice': the inevitable class and racial uncertainties in Son of the Gods." Classic Hollywood, classic whiteness. Ed. Daniel Bernardi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 76-77. Print.Niiya, Brian. Japanese-American History: An AZ Reference from 1868 to the Present. New York, New York: Facts on File Inc., 1993. Print. Pratt, George, C., Herbert Reynolds, and Cecil B. DeMille. “Forty-five years of image-making: an interview with Cecil B. DeMille.” History of Cinema Vol. 3 No. 2 (1989): 139-140. Print.