Popular Culture
Nelson is frequently referenced in relation to the eighties due to the popularity of his early films: The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire (1985); indeed, regarding his working relationship with John Hughes - and his role in The Breakfast Club - Nelson appeared at the 2010 Academy Awards to pay a tribute to the late film director along with other cast members of Hughes' films.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)