Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 author 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.
Title: Pleasing Everyone Mass Entertainment In Renaissance London And Golden - Age Hollywood
Author(s): Knapp Jeffrey (Eggers Professor Of English Eggers Professor Of English University Of California Berkeley)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190634063
Pages: 312 Pages, 129
Publication Date: 1/20/2017
Category: Social & Cultural History