Schatz in Landy:
-No other genre films, not even the "anti-Westerns" of the same period, projected so complex and paradoxical a view of America, at once celebrating and severely questioning the basic values and attitudes of the mass audience. (150)
-Beneath this seemingly escapist fare, however, Elsaesser glimpses the genre's covert function "to formulate a devastating critique of the ideology that supports it". (151)
-...this is precisely the function I am proposing for popular movies. They permit us to look without looking at things we can neither face fully nor entirely disavow. (152)
Sirk's Written on the Wind:
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