Hollywood Highbrow
Subtitle: From Entertainment to Art (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780691125275
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Film And Society; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Popular Culture - General; Film Studies; Sociology; Aesthetics; Film Criticism; History; Motion pictures; United States
Description: "In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves." "The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies - and not just European ones - deserved to be considered art."--Jacket.