Artists in the Audience

Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

949 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-08-26
Mått152 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691089553

Tillhör följande kategorier

PREFACE CHAPTER ONE The Spectator as Critic as Artist 3 CHAPTER TWO Movies to the Rescue: American Modernism and the Middlebrow Challenge 19 CHAPTER THREE Life on the Edge: Manny Farber and Cult Criticism 30 CHAPTER FOUR Hallucinating Hollywood: Parker Tyler and Camp Spectatorship 49 CHAPTER FIVE From Termites to Auteurs: Cultism Goes Mainstream 73 CHAPTER SIX Heavy Culture and Underground Camp 98 CHAPTER SEVEN Retreat into Theory 122 CONCLUSION Love, Death, and the Limits of Artistic Criticism 150 NOTES 159 REFERENCES 179 INDEX 193

"The educated public has known for years that vanguard film theory is one part self-indulgence, two parts hoodwinking. Taylor's study shows precisely how and why the interpreters lost touch within the medium."--Jacob M. Appel, Boston Book Review "Taylor constructs a detailed history of some of the most salient trends in Post-World War II American cinema and film criticism... [His] points are well-taken and his analyses convincingly argued."--Robert L. Cagle, afterimage "Lively, provocative reading... This is a gripping saga as Taylor tells it, carefully constructed and lucidly written."--David Sterritt, Cineaste "Greg Taylor's intriguing study of film critics takes both a discriminating and aesthetic approach to the subject... An illuminating book."--Filmbill