Why did the entertainment industry grow significantly after World War I? People wanted an escape in difficult economic times, an
d entertainment had previously been unavailable. Soldiers returned home and wanted to be entertained, and the audience for music and “talkies” increased. Many popular entertainers had been war heroes, and people were willing to pay a lot of money to hear and see them. People sought easy and inexpensive ways of escaping unhappy memories of recent events.
After the First World War, people were impacted by the negative effects of war. Thus, people sought leisure as a method of forgetting, even temporarily, the devastating effects of war.
At that time, the American entertainment industry was expanding rapidly as the country became an economic powerhouse. This was called the Golden Age. People came to demand cinema and culture, which were cheap ways to entertain society.
