Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American
by Decherney, Peter
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0231133774
- ISBN 13
- 9780231133777
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. x, 269 pages; 23 cm. Film and Culture Series. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity. This book explores how their needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: How Film Became Art; 1. Vachel Lindsay and the Universal Film Collection; 2. Overlapping Publics: Hollywood and Columbia University, 1915; 3. Mandarins and Marxists: Harvard and the Rise of Film Experts; 4. Iris Barry, Hollywood Imperialism, and the Gender of the Nation; 5. The Museum of Modern Art and the Roots of the Cultural Cold War; 6. The Politics of Patronage: How the NEA (Accidentally) Created American Avant-Garde Film; Conclusion: The End of the Studio System.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American
- Author
- Decherney, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0231133774
- ISBN 13
- 9780231133777
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film, TV, & Video / Film / History & Criticism;
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