Film At the Intersection of High and Mass Culture

Klappentext Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art. Zusammenfassung Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art! with particular reference to Hollywood and European cinema. Written in the essayistic speculative tradition of Walter Benjamin and Thedor Adorno! this study also includes analyses of several key films of the 1980s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Kitsch, art and the audience; Part I. Getting in on the act; Part II. Genres; Part III. Dark continents; Part IV. Lost in the stars; Part V. Lucid Dreams; Appendices A-C; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Paul Coates, Coates Paul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521107914
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10791-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Films, cinema, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989