- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; New Ed edition (6 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691089558
- ISBN-13: 978-0691089553
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,336,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The educated public has known for years that vanguard film theory is one part self-indulgence, two parts hoodwinking. Taylor's study shows precisely how and why the interpreters lost touch within the medium. -- Jacob M. Appel, Boston Book Review
Taylor constructs a detailed history of some of the most salient trends in Post-World War II American cinema and film criticism. . . . [His] points are well-taken and his analyses convincingly argued. -- Robert L. Cagle, afterimage
Lively, provocative reading. . . . This is a gripping saga as Taylor tells it, carefully constructed and lucidly written. -- David Sterritt, Cineaste
Greg Taylor's intriguing study of film critics takes both a discriminating and aesthetic approach to the subject. . . . An illuminating book. -- "Filmbill
Taylor constructs a detailed history of some of the most salient trends in Post-World War II American cinema and film criticism. . . . [His] points are well-taken and his analyses convincingly argued. -- Robert L. Cagle, afterimage
Lively, provocative reading. . . . This is a gripping saga as Taylor tells it, carefully constructed and lucidly written. -- David Sterritt, Cineaste
Greg Taylor's intriguing study of film critics takes both a discriminating and aesthetic approach to the subject. . . . An illuminating book. -- "Filmbill
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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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16 Jun 1999
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The book is fascinating and down-right awe-inspiring.
16 Jun 1999
Format:Hardcover
I've said it before. I'll say it again...flug. That's right folks, flug, and a most interesting one at that. With all seriousness, this books rule! I would have it surgically attached to my thigh if possible.
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