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
In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have… — 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
