In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate - in order to examine the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its establishment within the academy in the late 1930s and 1940s. This critical movement managed to transform the teaching and study of English through a series of essays published in journals such as the Southern Review and the Kenyon Review. Jancovich argues that the New Criticism was not an example of bourgeois individualism, as previously held, but that it sprang from a critique of modern capitalist society developed by pre-capitalist classes within the American South. In the process, he clarifies the distinctions between the aims of these three Southern poets from those of the next 'generation' of New Critics such as Cleanth Brooks, Warren and Welleck, and Wimsatt and Beardsley. He also claims that the failure on the part of most contemporary critics to identify the movement's ideological origins and aims has usually meant that these critics continue to operate within the very professional terms of reference established through the New Critical transformations of the academy.

The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism

Literature & Fiction

Jancovich, Mark

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

This book is one of the titles in the Cultural Studies series, which examines the origins of the horror genre from the rationality of the 18th century and the emerging awareness of science, in the cinema and through to contemporary fascination with serial killers. The book combines historical and critical analyses and looks at such topics within the genre as American nightmares, beasts of the late-Victorian imagination and the dominance of the horror genre in contemporary culture.

Horror (Batsford Cultural Studies)

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

This re-assessment of 1950s American horror films relates them to the cultural debates of the period and to other examples of the horror genre: novels and comics. Through close analysis of a wide range of films such as "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Creature of the Black Lagoon" Mark Jancovich argues that horror films of the 1950s developed a critique of conservatism, conformity, mass society and masculinity. In addition, he claims that while many critics have seen contemporary horror as the product of a "break" with that of the 1950s, most of the key elements within recent horror films and novels were actually established during this time.

Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Manchester Univ Pr

This re-assessment of 1950s American horror films relates them to the cultural debates of the period and to other examples of the horror genre: novels and comics. Through close analysis of a wide range of films such as "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Creature of the Black Lagoon" Mark Jancovich argues that horror films of the 1950s developed a critique of conservatism, conformity, mass society and masculinity. In addition, he claims that while many critics have seen contemporary horror as the product of a "break" with that of the 1950s, most of the key elements within recent horror films and novels were actually established during this time.

Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader

Monteith, Sharon

Grainge, Paul

Edinburgh University Press

Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? Looking at shows as diverse as "Ally McBeal", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Star Trek" it examines the particular qualities necessary for success and how they relate to issues such as the economics of network scheduling.

Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (BFI Modern Classics)

Lyons, James

Dramas & Plays

British Film Institute

Examines the meanings of different sites of film exhibition and distribution (city-centre cinemas, local cinemas, art-house cinemas, multiplexes, television transmission, video rental/retail, and satellite/cable) and the meanings of the activities of film consumption associated with these sites.

The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption

Faire, Lucy

Stubbings, Sarah

It has been a recurring complaint both within, and against, Film Studies that it has largely ignored the activities of audiences. This book addresses this absence and explains its cause. The authors argue that there is a social context in which the consumption of film can be understood or studied historically and demonstrate that a concentration on the place of film consumption within the changing cultural politics of the city can offer a compelling and productive focus of analysis.

Stubbins, Sarah

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The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism

The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism

Horror (Batsford Cultural Studies)

Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s

Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s

Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader

Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (BFI Modern Classics)

The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption

The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption