Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 352 g
Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 352 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-08955-3
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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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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
