Article on Bradbury's Indebtedness to Cinema

Check out this story in the Peoria Journal-Star about the influence of popular culture and cinema on Ray Bradbury's writing style.

Sam Weller, a Bradbury biographer (who, as it turns out, will be speaking in BR on March 1st), argues that "Bradbury may be the first author of literature to have his sense of narrative altered by cinematic style."

The question I had after reading the article, though, is how Weller would resolve Bradbury's significant interest in popular culture (which, the writer says, Bradbury "absorbed...like a sponge in the 1930s") and his searing critique of popular culture, television, and mass media that we see in F451.