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While China enforces censorship rigorously, Western media operates within a different framework—one primarily governed by free-market forces, consumer preferences, and civil liberties. Hollywood, for instance, experiments with diverse genres and themes, often chasing fleeting trends. Recent years have seen Hollywood genres rise and fall rapidly—disaster movies, crime noir, superhero franchises—each with their "heyday" but none sustaining cultural dominance for long.