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BL
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966196
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b720566
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Decherney, Peter
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| Title & Author
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Hollywood and the culture elite : : how the movies became American /\ Peter Decherney.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, [2005]
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, ©2005
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| Series Statement
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Film and culture
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1 online resource (x, 269 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0231508514
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0231133766
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0231133774
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9780231133760
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9780231133777
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-251) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Motion picture industry-- United States-- History.
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Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Media Communications.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Filmwirtschaft
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Manners and customs.
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Motion picture industry.
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Motion pictures-- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures.
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Nationalbewusstsein
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- General.
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Schauspieler
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Telecommunications.
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United States, Social life and customs, 20th century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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384/.8/0973
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| LC Classification
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PN1993.5.U6D36 2005eb
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