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Author Decherney, Peter.

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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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  384.8 D293H    Check Shelf
Description x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
Subject Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN 0231133766 alkaline paper
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