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Artists in the Audience : Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism / Greg Taylor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691186276
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/01/50973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. The Spectator as Critic as Artist -- CHAPTER TWO. Movies to the Rescue: American Modernism and the Middlebrow Challenge -- CHAPTER THREE. Life on the Edge: Manny Färber and Cult Criticism -- CHAPTER FOUR. Hallucinating Hollywood: Parker Tyler and Camp Spectatorship -- CHAPTER FIVE. From Termites to Auteurs: Cultism Goes Mainstream -- CHAPTER SIX. Heavy Culture and Underground Camp -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Retreat i n to Theory -- CONCLUSION. Love, Death, and the Limits o f Artistic Criticism -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. The Spectator as Critic as Artist -- CHAPTER TWO. Movies to the Rescue: American Modernism and the Middlebrow Challenge -- CHAPTER THREE. Life on the Edge: Manny Färber and Cult Criticism -- CHAPTER FOUR. Hallucinating Hollywood: Parker Tyler and Camp Spectatorship -- CHAPTER FIVE. From Termites to Auteurs: Cultism Goes Mainstream -- CHAPTER SIX. Heavy Culture and Underground Camp -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Retreat i n to Theory -- CONCLUSION. Love, Death, and the Limits o f Artistic Criticism -- Notes -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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