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Hollywood Intellect (Hardcover, New)
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Hollywood Intellect (Hardcover, New)
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Hollywood Intellect takes off from the wide-spread hand-wringing
over the fate or disappearance of so-called public intellectuals.
An account of the title phenomenon, Hollywood Intellect challenges
assumptions on which such discussions have rested. James D. Bloom
argues that such assumptions are the result of misleading
inattention to the intellectual work that mass culture performs.
Much of America's influential intellectual work has come out of
Hollywood, which has long helped shape America's intellectual
agenda. Bloom shows how Hollywood movies often do intellectual work
as ambitious as the intellectual work in "art films," poems and
novels, museums and erudite quarterlies. Hollywood Intellect
prompts its readers to reflect on the impact of a variety of
Hollywood movies with some of the same assumptions, expectations,
and questions customarily applied to literary writing. Hollywood
Intellect also illustrates how, in examining the emergence of
Hollywood and stardom in general as shapers of the public mind,
some of our most renowned poets and novelists enriched our
experience of mass entertainment and of elite culture. Drawing on a
range of literary works and movies, as well as on the careers of
both Hollywood and literary celebrities, Bloom documents how
Hollywood regulates curiosity, arbitrates civilization, construes
and probes stardom, polices genre, and shapes our language.
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