A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

It was Rene Clair who pointed out that if two or three people were together on a stage, the dramatist must ceaselessly motivate or explain their being there at all. But the film audience, like the book reader, accepts mere sequence as rational. Whatever the camera turns to, the audience accepts.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 286
Year: 1964
Chapter: Movies
Compiled by William Kuhns
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