Pleasing Everyone
Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 January 2019
- ISBN 9780190935924
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 155x234x20 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 129 illustrations 0
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Short description:
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, Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The Individual and the Mass
1. Which Moll?
2. The Real John Doe
Part 2: Show Business
3. I Must Be Idle
4. One Step Ahead of My Shadow
Part 3: Junk and Art
5. Mocked With Art
6. Throw That Junk
Epilogue: The Author of Mass Entertainment
Coda: A Second Look
Notes
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