Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism
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Book Overview
Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched. One of the first-ever studies of American film criticism, Artists in the Audience shows that film critics, beginning in the 1940s, turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers. In doing so, they offered readers a vanguard alternative that reshaped postwar American culture: nonaesthetic mass culture reconceived and refashioned into rich, personally relevant art by the attuned, creative spectator.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691089558
ISBN13:9780691089553
Release Date:October 2001
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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