| Description |
1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Film and culture
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Film and culture.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
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Motion picture industry. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Culture in motion pictures. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Decherney, Peter. Hollywood and the culture elite. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004061786 |
| ISBN |
0231508514 (electronic book) |
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9780231508513 (electronic book) |
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9780231133760 |
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0231133766 |
| Music No. |
EB00662332 Recorded Books |
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