"[2] The speed-reading text is taken from "Pupils into Students," an essay written by Jacques Barzun and published in Teacher in America (1945).
[5] Remedial Reading Comprehension is considered a prominent and important work in the structural film movement.
[3] Scholar Fred Camper wrote that the film “does not try to build up an illusion of reality, to combine the images together with the kind of spatial or rhythmic continuity that would suggest that one is watching “real” people or objects.
It works rather toward the opposite end, to make one aware of the unreality, the created and mechanical nature, of film.”[5] Wheeler Winston Dixon wrote that "the film acts upon us, addressing us, viewing us as we view it, until the film itself becomes a gaze, rather than an object to be gazed upon.”[5] J.D.
Connor considered Remedial Reading Comprehension to be an "odd intervention" in the structural film movement, in that it retains "the Romantic interest in dreams and personae" away from which avant-garde cinema had been moving.