Artists in the Audience

Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism

Greg Taylor
eISBN-13: 9780691186276

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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.

Sold By Princeton University Press
ISBNs 9780691004211, 9780691186276, 0691186278, 9780691089553, 9780691186276
Language eng
Number of Pages 208