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Hollywood Aesthetic offers the first comprehensive appraisal of Hollywood's capacity to provide aesthetic pleasure to mass audiences. Grounded in film history and in the psychological and philosophical literature in aesthetics, Hollywood Aesthetic explains how Hollywood creates, for huge number...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berliner, Todd, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Cinéma > Esthétique.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Aesthetics
United States
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Hollywood Aesthetic offers the first comprehensive appraisal of Hollywood's capacity to provide aesthetic pleasure to mass audiences. Grounded in film history and in the psychological and philosophical literature in aesthetics, Hollywood Aesthetic explains how Hollywood creates, for huge numbers of people, some of their most exhilarating experiences of art.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 298 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780190658762
0190658762
9780190658786
0190658789