Mcdonalds-ization
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of McDonaldization. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
"Francis Ford Coppola, maker of such films as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Apocalypse Now, in Details magazine on why movies aren’t as good as they used to be: “Essentially, the film industry is now the child of network television. The people that now run the studios have all been television executives and agents. So that same thing that produced the Vast Wasteland has now bought the movie industry. It’s formulization, McDonalds-ization. Don’t forget, television used to be a fertile place for writers, but it got neutralized.”"
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More examples"Francis Ford Coppola, maker of such films as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Apocalypse Now, in Details magazine on why movies aren’t as good as they used to be: “Essentially, the film industry is now the child of network television. The people that now run the studios have all been television executives and agents. So that same thing that produced the Vast Wasteland has now bought the movie industry. It’s formulization, McDonalds-ization. Don’t forget, television used to be a fertile place for writers, but it got neutralized.”"
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