The influence of the cinema on children and adolescents
The influence of the cinema on children and adolescents
The first section laid out a theory of media that recognized the cathartic and escapist function of motion picture entertainment but deplored the photoplay that “tends to degrade human beings.” Italicized references to “moral importance” and capitalized imperatives that “the motion picture has special Moral obligations” animate every line of the text. A key passage asserts the profound moral obligation filmmakers have toward young people because “the mobility, popularity, accessibility, emotiona