Mark Lynn Anderson



Cover Interview of August 14, 2011

Editor’s note


“I am concerned with the society that made the late silent cinema in America possible.”

We highlighted two quotes.

On the first page:

“While liberal left critics in America today typically view celebrity culture as a burdensome popular distraction taking citizens away from the real political issues facing our world, I have written an elegy for a lost moment when mass cultural reception, particularly the reception of Hollywood stars, was a principal site of social involvement.”

On the second:

“We assist the dominant media in upholding the distinction between social discourse and entertainment by continually postulating a pathological audience incapable of adequate cultural discrimination.  Appreciating the difference between news and amusement is an important means of being normal in our society today.”