A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…the art of the movie is not to be judged by the invention and arrangement of images but by the effect which those images have on the mind or guts of a spectator.
“The Psychopathology of Time & “Life,” (1949) in The Scene Before You (1955), p 149
Quote #4789
Year: 1949
Chapter: Movies
Compiled by William Kuhns
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