The assumptions governing the arguments throughout Hollywood Intellect include Radosh’s claim for movies as the touchstone of intellect, Mamet’s understanding of how movies we care about always engage us intellectually, Kael’s appreciation of what movies, exclusively, “can do” for the collective life of the mind, and Wilder’s simultaneously self-deprecating, self-aggrandizing view of moviegoers as idiot-geniuses. The movies, according to such assumptions, nurture the “genius” Wilder extols. With this aim in mind, Hollywood Intellect asks: How have many Hollywood movies worked or at least demonstrated their aspiration to work such a transformation of moviegoers into “geniuses”? Or, picking up on Mamet’s cue, how have a number of Hollywood movies over the past century stirred our “intellectual fantasies”?. [download]
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