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Hollywood and the culture elite : How the movies became American
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- Creator
- Peter Decherney
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
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- x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0231133766, 0231508514, 0231133774, 9780231133760, 9780231508513, 9780231133777
- OCLC
- ocm56753305, ocn213305995, ocn643556471
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-251) and index.
- 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