Hollywood Highbrow : From Entertainment to Art / Shyon Baumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumann, Shyon, author.

Series:

Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism--United States--History.

Film criticism.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 225 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER I. Introduction: Drawing the Boundaries of Art

CHAPTER 2. The Changing Opportunity Space: Developments i n the Wider Social Context

CHAPTER 3. Change from Within: New Production and Consumption Practices

CHAPTER 4. The Intellectualization of Film

CHAPTER 5. Mechanisms for Cultural Valuation

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-215) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691187280

0691187282

OCLC:

1132226579