Hollywood Highbrow

Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon Baumann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691187282

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time 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. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

Japanese Grammar Self-taught. (In Roman Character)

Japanese Grammar Self-taught. (In Roman Character)
Author: Henry J Weintz
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789353861803

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Welcome to the NHK Volume 7

Welcome to the NHK Volume 7
Author: Tatsuhiko Takimoto
Publisher: TokyoPop
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-06-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781427808820

Satou and Misaki grow closer and even pose as a couple when Satou's mother comes for a visit. Later, Satou and Yamazaki share their frustrations over love and women and decide to funnel that into their hentai game. Misaki worries that Satou is headed down a road of destruction--is she right?

Duel Art

Duel Art
Author: Kazuki Takahashi
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781927925416

It's time to DUEL! The original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga ran for 38 volumes, has been adapted into multiple anime television series, and spawned one of the most popular trading card games in the world. Duel Art collects the fantastic color artwork of series creator Kazuki Takahashi, along with rough concept sketches, tutorials, and an exclusive interview with Takahashi-sensei himself.

Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, Vol. 1

Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, Vol. 1
Author:
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2022-08-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1975340221

BASED ON THE HIT ANIME FILM! An unexplained series of suicides among skill users sends the Armed Detective Agency on a search for a man who may be connected. But when the same phenomenon descends upon Yokohama, they’ll have to fight for their lives if they want a chance to reach the truth and save the city from certain destruction!

One Piece, Vol. 74

One Piece, Vol. 74
Author: Eiichiro Oda
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1421583542

Operation S.O.P. is in full effect! Usopp and the others search for a way to undo the magic that has turned so many of the people of Dressrosa into toys. Meanwhile, Luffy heads toward the palace with the goal of taking down the source of all the trouble, Doflamingo! -- VIZ Media