Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture
by
Paul Coates
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Film
ISBN-10
0521444721
ISBN-13
9780521444729
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 25th, 1994
Print length
221 Pages
Weight
498 grams
Product Classification:
Films, cinema
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Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art.
Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art, with particular reference to Hollywood and European cinema. Written in the essayistic speculative tradition of Walter Benjamin and Thedor Adorno, this study also includes analyses of several key films of the 1980s. Tracing the boundaries of such genres as film noir, science fiction and melodrama, it demonstrates how these genres were radically expanded by such film makers as Neil Jordan, Chris Marker and Georges Franju. This work also reflects on kitsch, the star system, racial and gender stereotypes and the nature of audience participation. While defining the conditions under which the symbiotic relationship between high and mass culture can be cross-fertilising, the study stresses their inevitably contradictory characteristics.
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