Artists in the Audience : Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism
Book Details
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 28 days
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.
Get Artists in the Audience by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Princeton University Press and it has pages.
