Film and Television Studies

American motion pictures are written by the half-educated for the half-witted.

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all, that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open, has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.