_The death of the public intellectual has been announced more often than thedeath of the novel_ a 2006 article in New York magazine claimed. HollywoodIntellect ... » 

_The death of the public intellectual has been announced more often than thedeath of the novel_ a 2006 article in New York magazine claimed. HollywoodIntellect argues that the assumptions on which such laments rest result frommisleading inattention to the intellectual work that mass culture performs.From D.W. Griffiths Intolerance to The Simpsons Movie much of Americasinfluential intellectual work has come out of Hollywood which has long shapedAmericas intellectual agenda. «