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Pleasing Everyone

By Jeffrey Knapp

Pleasing Everyone

By Jeffrey Knapp

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2017-01-20
Publication Date:
2017-01-20
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190634065
ISBN13:
9780190634063
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
634 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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