TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Greg
TI  - Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism 
SN  - 9780691186276
U1  - 791.43/01/50973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Camp (Style)
KW  - Film criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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