Differences in the Dark In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American and English cultural differences, Michael Gilmore demonstrates that the most interesting way to understand
| Title | : | Differences in the Dark |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (369 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231112246 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1998-07-15 |
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George Bernard Shaw once quipped that America and England are two cultures separated by a common language. In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American and English cultural differences, Michael Gilmore demonstrates that the most interesting way to understand the distinctions between the two cultures is by looking closely at each country's favorite art form.Differences in the Dark is a fresh, wide-ranging look at the meaning of America's fascination with movies and movie stars, and the way the soul of Britain is reflected in its tenacious love affair with the stage.Gilmore shows how the characteristic features of American experience are inscribed in how movies, the quintessentially American idiom, are made and viewed. In the private, solitary nature of film-viewing (in contrast to the more communal, interactive experience of seeing a play), and in American actors' tendency to play themselves, not their characters, from role to role,
Editorial : Gilmore's lively account raises questions many of us have never thought of--or dared to bring up One of the more engaging cross-cultural studies in recent years, it has major implications for popular culture.
(Journal of Popular Culture)
Gilmore sketches profiles of two societies, American and Britain. From this, he works out that film is predominantly in America, while the theater, which upholds 'customary values against the possible future symbolized by movies,'dominates Britain. The thesis teases ustoward a comfortable sense of cultural arrangement.
(Stanley Kauffmann New Republic)
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