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Pleasing Everyone

Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood

Av 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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-02-23
  • Mått: 157 x 236 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 748 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190634063
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Jeffrey Knapp is the Eggers Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including An Empire Nowhere: England and America from Utopia to The Tempest (1992), Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (2002), and Shakespeare Only (2009).

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Jeffrey Knapp's Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood persuasively argues that the size of theatre audiences and the popularity of printed playbooks mean that Renaissance drama should be classed as mass entertainment...Knapp avoids the trap of making generalizations about two very different time periods, carefully historicizing his analysis of plays and film alike. The comparison between Renaissance drama and goldenage Hollywood forces us to re-evaluate modern attitudes to popular entertainment and mass media. For the early modern scholar, Knapp's monogram offers a welcome reminder that Renaissance drama was not only popular but often populist.

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