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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.

Movies Have Been Doing So Much Of The Same Thing - In Slightly Different Ways - For So Long That Few Of The Possibilities Of This Great Hybrid Art Have Yet Been Explored.

The Critical Task Is Necessarily Comparative, And Younger People Do Not Truly Know What Is New

Mcluhanism And The Media Have Broken The Back Of The Book Business; They've Freed People From The Shame Of Not Reading. They've Rationalized Becoming Stupid And Watching Television.

If I Never Saw Another Fistfight Or Car Chase Or Doberman Attack, I Wouldn't Have Any Feeling Of Loss. And That Goes For Rottweilers, Too.