Scènes de la vie future
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| - | [ [[Cinema]] is] "a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries . . ., a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence . . ., which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a 'star' in Los Angeles."--''[[Scènes de la vie future ]]'' (1930) by [[Georges Duhamel]] | + | [ [[Film|Cinema]] is] "a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries . . ., a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence . . ., which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a 'star' in Los Angeles."--''[[Scènes de la vie future ]]'' (1930) by [[Georges Duhamel]] |
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[ Cinema is] "a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries . . ., a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence . . ., which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a 'star' in Los Angeles."--Scènes de la vie future (1930) by Georges Duhamel Original French: "est un divertissement d'ilotes, un passe-temps d'illettrés, de créatures misérables, ahuris par leur besogne et leurs soucis […], un spectacle qui ne demande aucun effort, qui ne suppose aucune suite dans les idées, ne soulève aucune question, n'aborde sérieusement aucun problème, n'allume aucune passion, n'éveille au fond des cœurs aucune lumière, n'excite aucune espérance, sinon celle, ridicule, d'être un jour "star" à Los Angeles." |
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Scènes de la vie future (1930) is a collection of essays by Georges Duhamel first published in Paris by Mercure de France.
Among other things, it featured the derogatory comments on the early film industry and their audience, quoted by Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
