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.