Hollywood intellect / James D. Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, James D., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxv, 220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

Much of America's influential intellectual work has come out of Hollywood, which has long helped to shape America's intellectual agenda. Bloom shows how Hollywood movies often do intellectual work as ambitious as that in "art-films," poems and novels, museums, and erudite quarterlies. Hollywood Intellect prompts its readers to reflect on the impact of a variety of Hollywood movies with some of the same assumptions, expectations, and questions customarily applied to literary writing. Hollywood Intellect also illustrates how, in examining the emergence of Hollywood and stardom in general as shapers of the public mind, some of our most renowned poets and novelists enriched our experience of mass entertainment and elite culture. Drawing on a range of literary works and movies, as well as on the careers of both Hollywood and literary celebrities, Bloom documents how Hollywood regulates curiosity, arbitrates civilization, construes and probes stardom, polices genre, and shapes our language.

Contents:

Intelligenti

Stargazers

Civilization : the movie

Civilization : the movie noir

Unseen melodies/reel time

POV pandora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780739129234

0739129236

9780739129241

0739129244

9780739140864

0739140868

OCLC:

366545957