>>18414707>Mind explaining how movies were bad?Movies create role models. Before them, men would generally emulate their fathers (Emile Durkheim described this famously), but once you have young men seeing young women react to celebrities like Elvis, the Beatles or James Dean, the incentive to emulate your father is gone and instead, you want to be like those guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOcYTOBA0CISince our brain is wired to learn by imitation, seeing men being rewarded unbelievably for their conduct on stage or screen naturally causes a massive shift in how people forge their own identities. It's the prerequisite for breaking the family apart as well, since your parents are no longer meaningful role models.
Of course, you need to see these people to get widespread imitation, so the radio wasn't that big of an issue. Famously, the Kennedy/Nixon debate shows that people consume radio starkly different than TV.
