Title Hollywood and the culture elite : How the movies became American / Peter Decherney.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Film and culture
	Film and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-251) and index.
Contents	Introduction : how film became art -- Vachel Lindsay and the Universal Film Museum -- Overlapping publics : Hollywood and Columbia University, 1915 -- Mandarins and Marxists : Harvard and the rise of film experts -- Iris Barry, Hollywood imperialism, and the gender of the nation -- The Museum of Modern Art and the roots of the cultural Cold War -- The politics of patronage : how the NEA (accidentally) created American avant-garde film -- Conclusion : the transformation of the studio system.
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Summary	Explores how Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together, amid ethnic diversity, the rise of mass entertainment, world war, and the global spread of American culture, to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity.
Subject	Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
	Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
	Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Culture in motion pictures.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
	Culture in motion pictures.
	Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
	Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
	Culture in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01902963
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Motion picture industry. (OCoLC)fst01027150
	Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
	Motion pictures -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01027384
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Decherney, Peter. Hollywood and the culture elite. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004061786
ISBN	0231508514 (electronic bk.)
	9780231508513 (electronic bk.)
Music No.	EB00662332 Recorded Books

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