 | John Docker - 1994 - 348 pagine
...to observe, now provides the main form of recreation in the 'civilised world', for the film involves 'surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life'. A primary part of the potency of film lies in its stress on the visual sense, on the pictorial - something... | |
 | John Storey - 1998 - 666 pagine
...more potent influence. 7 They provide now the main form of recreation in the civilised world; and they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the "standard of living'... | |
 | Allison Pease - 2000 - 268 pagine
...influence is more potent; "they provide now the main form of recreation in the civilised world; and they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life." 21 The characterizations above make clear that the typical consumer of mass culture in the 19205 and... | |
 | Georgina Taylor - 2001 - 248 pagine
...interrogation. Many people expressed these kinds of views at this time, including FR Leavis who writes that films ‘involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity, to the cheapest emotional appeals'. 79 Within the public sphere of modernist women writers, discussion ranged over how to expose the ‘masses'... | |
 | Steve Chibnall, Julian Petley - 2002 - 260 pagine
...example, in 1930 FR Leavis in Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture criticized films because they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the 'standard of living'.... | |
 | Steve Chibnall, Julian Petley - 2002 - 260 pagine
...example, in 1930 FR. Leavis in Muss CiżiIisotion and Minority Culture criticized films because they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life, It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the ‘standard olliving'... | |
 | Raiford Guins, Omayra Zaragoza Cruz - 2005 - 564 pagine
...more potent influence. 7 They provide now the main form of recreation in the civilised world; and they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the ‘standard of living'... | |
 | Brad Beaven - 2005 - 284 pagine
...upon higher and more civilised cultural planes. Thus cinema-going entailed the audience surrendering 'under conditions of hypnotic receptivity, to the...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life'. Leavis went on to say that mass film-going was helping to shape a standardised popular leisure which... | |
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surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity, to the cheapest emotional appeals, appeals the more insidious because they are associated with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life 