Why Does The Movie Generation Know So Little About Movies?

“It is strange that while we worry about literacy and the need to read, an entire generation is growing up in complete ignorance of a rich and varied part of its own cultural heritage. How many teens could name one film by David Lean, Lindsay Anderson, Ken Loach, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock or Michael Powell – or even explain, with any degree of accuracy, what their involvement with that film actually was?”