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Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology (2)) by Shyon Baumann is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art

Who reads Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology (2))?

It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.

Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.

Author
Shyon Baumann
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780691125275
Category
performing arts
Subjects
Sports, Literary Fiction, Anthropology
Rating
5 / 5 (1 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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