American Cinema

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“The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star!”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)