Hollywood Highbrow by Shyon Baumann

Hollywood Highbrow by Shyon Baumann

Moviegoers 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.

"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

Shyon Baumann is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9780691125275
ISBN 10	0691125279
Title	Hollywood Highbrow
Author	Shyon Baumann
Series	Princeton Studies In Cultural Sociology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2007-10-14
Number of pages	248
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