Artists in the Audience Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism By: Greg Taylor Publisher: Princeton University Press Print ISBN: 9780691089553, 0691089558 eText ISBN: 9780691186276, 0691186278 Copyright year: 1999 Format: PDF Available from $ 39.95 USD SKU: 9780691186276 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. Additional ISBNs 9780691004211, 0691004218 SKU: 9780691089553 Download now: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Artists-in-the-Audience
