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

by Taylor, Greg
ISBN: 9780691089553
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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: TradePaperback
  • Author: Taylor, Greg
  • ISBN: 9780691089553
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.22 x 0.52
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 2001