Decherney, Peter

Hollywood and the culture elite : how the movies became American / Peter Decherney. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2005. - x, 269 p. : Ill. ; 24 cm. - Film and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- The transformation of the studio system

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Motion picture industry--History.--United States
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
Culture in motion pictures.
Cine--Historia--Estados Unidos.
Cine--Aspectos sociales--Estados Unidos.


United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

PN 1993.5 / D293h 2005

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