Pleasing everyone :mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood

• 作者: Knapp, Jeffrey
• 其他作者: Oxford University Press,
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• 稽核項: 297 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations (some color) ;25 cm.
• 標題: Motion pictures , Motion pictures Social aspects -- United States. , Theater , Theater and society England -- London -- History -- 16th century. , Theater England -- London -- History -- 17th century. , Social aspects , Theater England -- London -- History -- 16th century. , Theater and society , Motion pictures United States -- History -- 20th century. , Theater and society England -- London -- History -- 17th century. , History
• ISBN: 0190935928 , 9780190935924
• ISBN: 9780190634087 , 9780190634094
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index. Introduction -- The individual and the mass. Which Moll? ; The real John Doe -- Show business. I must be idle ; One step ahead of my shadow -- Junk and art. Mocked with art ; Throw that junk! -- Epilogue: The author of mass entertainment -- Coda: A second look.
• 摘要: "Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day--so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film"--
• 系統號: 005334689
• 資料類型: 圖書
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