{"product_id":"hollywood-highbrow-from-entertainment-to-art-9780691125275","title":"Hollywood Highbrow  From Entertainment to Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products - even some blockbusters - to be legitimate works of art. This title tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art is an important contribution to many disciplines: sociology of art and cinema, political economy of culture, American studies, cultural studies, even marketing, and, of course, film studies.\"--Yves LaBerge, Canadian Journal of Sociology \"What is perhaps most remarkable about Hollywood Highbrow is how it successfully synthesizes various causal explanations for how and why objects become culturally valorized. Here, Baumann presents an in-depth examination of how cultural hierarchies change, conceptualizing cultural hierarchies as mulitcausal 'processes'.\"--International Review of Modern Sociology \"In sum, I strongly encourage scholars of cultural phenomena to read this fine text. It is a clear and through presentation of an extremely complicated process, and so it should satisfy the interest of both experts and their students and colleagues. The book establishes a high place for Baumann among the new generation of scholars of culture, and I highly recommend it.\"--Jennifer C. Lena, American Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures ix  List of Tables xi  Acknowledgments xiii      CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Drawing the Boundaries of Art 1  The Central Argument 3  How Do We Know What Art Is? 4  American Film History 7  The Social Construction of Art 12  The Creation of Artistic Status: Opportunity, Institutions, and Ideology 14  Outline of the Chapters 18      CHAPTER 2: The Changing Opportunity Space: Developments in the Wider Social Context 21  The First World War and Urban-American Life: Two Disparate Influences on Film Attendance in Europe and the United States 23  Post-World War II Changes in the Size and Composition of American Film Audiences 32  Summary 51      CHAPTER 3: Change from Within: New Production and Consumption Practices 53  Film Festivals 54  Self-Promotion of Directors 59  Ties to Academia 66  United States, England, Germany, Italy, and France: Changes in the Industrial and Social History of Film 76  Purification through Venue: From Nickelodeons to Art Houses 88  Prestige Productions 92  The Ebb of Censorship and the Coming of Art 97  The Crisis of the 1960s Forced Hollywood down New Paths 105  Summary 108      CHAPTER 4: The Intellectualization of Film 111  Early U.S. Film Discourse 113  The Intellectualization of Film Reviews: 1925-1985 117  Film Reviews Approach Book Reviews: A Comparison with Literature 133  1960s Advertisements Incorporate Film Review 137  Foreign Film: A Pathway to High Art for Hollywood 148  Cultural Hierarchy, the Relevance of Critics, and the Status of Film as Art 155  Summary 159      CHAPTER 5: Mechanisms for Cultural Valuation 161  Why a Middlebrow Art? 163  Film Consumption as Cultural Capital 169  An Emphasis on Intellectualizing Discourse 171  Integration of Factors 173  The Study of Cultural Hierarchy 174      Notes 179  References 203  Index 217","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403741274455,"sku":"9780691125275","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hollywood-highbrow-from-entertainment-to-art-9780691125275","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}