Pleasing Everyone
Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780190634063
- ISBN-100190634065
- Library of Congress Control Number2016027980
- OCLC Control Number957133207
- Better World Books9780190634063
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28619666M
Classifications
- LCCPN2596.L6K647 2017
- LCCPN2596.L6 K647 2017
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, 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"--
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