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Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood
- Title
- Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood / Jeffrey Knapp.
- Author
- Knapp, Jeffrey (Professor of English)
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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- Description
- 297 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Theater and society
- Theater
- Motion pictures
- Theater and society > England > London > History > 16th century
- United States
- History
- Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
- Theater and society > England > London > History > 17th century
- Theater > England > London > History > 17th century
- Theater > England > London > History > 16th century
- Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States
- England > London
- 1500-1999
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Part 1: The individual and the mass -- 1. Which Moll? -- 2. The real John Doe -- Part 2: Show business -- 3. I must be idle -- 4. One step ahead of my shadow -- Part 3: Junk and art -- 5. Mocked with art -- 6. Throw that junk -- Epilogue: The author of mass entertainment -- Coda: A second look -- Notes -- Works cited.
- Call Number
- MWET 17-1327
- ISBN
- 9780190634063
- 0190634065
- LCCN
- 2016027980
- OCLC
- 957133207
- Author
- Knapp, Jeffrey (Professor of English), author.
- Title
- Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood / Jeffrey Knapp.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1999
- Research Call Number
- MWET 17-1327