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"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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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Artists in the Audience
• Author: Greg Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780691089553
• ISBN: 0691089558
• ID: 04640367
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2001

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