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Author Knapp, Jeffrey (Professor of English), author.

Title Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood / Jeffrey Knapp
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages .)
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
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2019)
Subject Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Theater and society -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Theater and society -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Theater
Theater and society
England -- London
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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