Even established intellectuals were hostile to the underground film scene.

Evidence

An article by Susan Sontag published in the April 13 issue of The Nation underscored “the indifference, the squeamishness, the downright hostility to the film evinced by almost everyone in the mature intellectual and artistic community.” (Some twenty years later, Sontag told me that the editor who commissioned the piece was fired as a result.) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 512

Categorization

• CANDY: The Sontag editor-was-fired anecdote is a light, tweetable detail.