...to observe, now provides the main form of recreation in the 'civilised world', for the film involves 'surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life'. A primary part of the potency of film lies in its stress on the visual sense, on the pictorial - something...

...more potent influence. 7 They provide now the main form of recreation in the civilised world; and they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the "standard of living'...

...influence is more potent; "they provide now the main form of recreation in the civilised world; and they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life." 21 The characterizations above make clear that the typical consumer of mass culture in the 19205 and...

...interrogation. Many people expressed these kinds of views at this time, including FR Leavis who writes that films ‘involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity, to the cheapest emotional appeals'. 79 Within the public sphere of modernist women writers, discussion ranged over how to expose the ‘masses'...

...example, in 1930 FR Leavis in Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture criticized films because they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the 'standard of living'....

...example, in 1930 FR. Leavis in Muss Ci¿iIisotion and Minority Culture criticized films because they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life, It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the ‘standard olliving'...

...more potent influence. 7 They provide now the main form of recreation in the civilised world; and they involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity,...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. It would be difficult to dispute that the result must be serious damage to the ‘standard of living'...

...upon higher and more civilised cultural planes. Thus cinema-going entailed the audience surrendering 'under conditions of hypnotic receptivity, to the...with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life'. Leavis went on to say that mass film-going was helping to shape a standardised popular leisure which...