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.
- ISBN10 0691004218
- ISBN13 9780691004211
- Publish Date 26 July 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6732.html