Artists in the Audience

Artists in the Audience Greg Taylor Additional Author mixed material bibliography Princeton University Press 2001 208 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. 691089558 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 791.430150973 TAYL 1107 C2O library & collabtive (Films & Video) 1107 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated