The 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… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings. — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology. — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
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 Powdermaker Copy Share Image
South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang. — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
