Neal Gabler Quotes

Neal Gabler is an American journalist, historian and film critic.Gabler graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago, Illinois, class of 1967, and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in both film and American culture. Wikipedia

✵ 1950

Neal Gabler: 1 quote 0 likes

Neal Gabler Quotes

“Perhaps the biggest reason why intellectuals excoriated entertainment was that they understood all too well their own precariousness in a world dominated by it. For whatever the overt content of any particular work, entertainment as a whole promulgated an unmistakable theme, one that took dead aim at the intellectuals’ most cherished values. That theme was the triumph of the senses over the mind, of emotion over reason, of chaos over order, or the id over the superego, of Dionysian abandon of Apollonian harmony. Entertainment was Plato’s worst nightmare. It deposed the rational and enthroned the sensational and in so doing deposed the intellectual minority and enthroned the unrefined majority.”

Neal Gabler

Source: Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (1998), p. 21

World , Sense , Dead

Similar authors

Helen Rowland photo

Helen Rowland 13

American journalist

Christopher Morley photo

Christopher Morley 30

American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

H.L. Mencken photo

H.L. Mencken 281

American journalist and writer

Hunter S. Thompson photo

Hunter S. Thompson 268

American journalist and author

Ernest Hemingway photo

Ernest Hemingway 501

American author and journalist

Jack London photo

Jack London 77

American author, journalist, and social activist

Mario Benedetti photo

Mario Benedetti 4

Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet

Olavo de Carvalho photo

Olavo de Carvalho 6

Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy

Italo Calvino photo

Italo Calvino 44

Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Svetlana Alexievich photo

Svetlana Alexievich 8

Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose w…