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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Greg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camp (Style).

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Film criticism--United States--History.

Film criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-192) and index.

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

ISBN:

9780691186276

0691186278

OCLC:

1132226368