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Pleasing Everyone - Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood (Hardcover)
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Pleasing Everyone - Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood (Hardcover)
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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.
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