Emanuel Levy
Cinema 24/7
Toward a History and Sociology of Cinematic Taste
Samuel Johnson:
“The vicissitudes of taste.”
Jean Genet, The Thief Journal:
“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
Picasso:
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ taste.”
Samuel A (Roxy) Rothafel:
“The public always knows what it wants just after it has seen it.”
H.L. Mencken:
“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
Film Theory: Taste–Hierarchy, Good Taste, Bad Taste, Middlebrow Taste
Toward a History and Sociology of Cinematic Taste
Samuel Johnson:
“The vicissitudes of taste.”
Jean Genet, The Thief Journal:
“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
Picasso:
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ taste.”
Samuel A (Roxy) Rothafel:
“The public always knows what it wants just after it has seen it.”
H.L. Mencken:
“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”