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

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.

ISBN:	9780691089553
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Published date:	26 Aug 2001
DEWEY:	791.430150973
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	198
Weight:	312g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	12mm

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