[...] for film theorist Rudolf Anheim and contemporaries, the cinema's potential as an art form largely ended with the coming of the Talkies; for the Boomer counterculture critics, Steven Spielberg was Satan incarnate, the revenge of Rockwellian repression, a hawker of tie-in toys and pre-packaged arcade game levels. What one generation perceives as catastrophe, the next takes as the natural state of things and the medium marches on.