Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American

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.