Artists in the Audience
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Artists in the Audience

Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Artists in the Audience

Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER ONE: The Spectator as Critic as Artist
  7. CHAPTER TWO: Movies to the Rescue: American Modernism and the Middlebrow Challenge
  8. CHAPTER THREE: Life on the Edge: Manny Färber and Cult Criticism
  9. CHAPTER FOUR: Hallucinating Hollywood: Parker Tyler and Camp Spectatorship
  10. CHAPTER FIVE: FromTermites to Auteurs: Cultism Goes Mainstream
  11. CHAPTER SIX: Heavy Culture and Underground Camp
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN: Retreat into Theory
  13. CONCLUSION: Love, Death, and the Limits of Artistic Criticism
  14. NOTES
  15. REFERENCES
  16. INDEX