Channels of Discourse, Reassembled Quotes

“It was assumed that genre films could not have any artistic merit, because they were not original works and because they were not authored works. These standards of evaluation are based upon a romantic theory of art that places the highest value on the concepts of originality, person creativity, and the idea of the individual artist as genius.”
― Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism, 2nd Edition