Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.
Hortense PowdermakerThe Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.
Hortense PowdermakerSouth Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.
Hortense PowdermakerAll entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.
Hortense Powdermaker