Pauline Kael Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

  Pauline Kael

  Mass Culture, Deprivation, Form

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

  Pauline Kael

  Culture, Taste, Reverence

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

• In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Past, Zest

  "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.

• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Hero

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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