Elizabeth Robins Pennell, “The Movies as Dope,”
North American Review 214, no. 72 (November 1921), 619-21.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell was an
art historian and artist biographer. Pennell’s argument is very
much from the intellectual elite, and her disdain for the movies shows
through each sentence. Her main criticism of movies is that they are
not morally enriching.
