Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism

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...

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Main Author: Taylor, Greg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2018]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186276
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780691186276
DOI:10.1515/9780691186276