What was Gilbert Seldes's main critique of Hollywood in his book, "The Great Audience"?
-Hollywood was marketing towards the younger generation. After doing research, Hollywood’s numbers showed that people in there twenties were going to the cinemas more than there targeted audience. They were targeting the wrong age group by trying to attract even younger children.
Why did Pauline Kael predict that Hollywood would lose favor with audiences, and why did Ezra Goodman declare the "end of Hollywood" in 1961?
-Pauline Kael predicted that Hollywood would lose favor because the audience wanted something more modern like television. The audience wanted something with a sense of urgency to produce with was offered by television.
Ezra Goodman believed that TV would become too competitive for Hollywood films. It had become the primary outlet for audiovisual entertainment at the time.
Why was Richard Dyer McCann optimistic about the future of the American cinema in 1962?
-He argued that films had been given a new position by being free of self-censorship and was working away from being assembly line like productions. Films were going to become a way of critiquing social issues and becoming more specialized.
By: Brad Richardson
