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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Greg,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691186276; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691186276?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Greg Taylor.

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.