Museum Movies

The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema

Haidee Wasson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

327 Seiten

2005
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24131-2 (ISBN)

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Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, established in 1935. The first North American film archive and museum, the film library pioneered an expansive moving image network, comprising popular, abstract, animated, American, Canadian, and European films. More than a repository, MoMA circulated these films nationally and internationally, connecting the modern art museum to universities, libraries, women's clubs, unions, archives, and department stores. Under the aegis of the museum, cinema also changed. Like books, paintings, and photographs, films became discrete objects, integral to thinking about art, history, and the politics of modern life.

Haidee Wasson is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Concordia University, Montreal.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Making Cinema a Modern Art Chapter 2: Mannered Cinema/Mobile Theaters: Film Exhibition, 16mm, and the New Audience Ideal Chapter 3: The Mass Museology of the Modern Chapter 4: An Awkward and Dangerous Task: The Film Library Takes Shape Chapter 5: Rearguard Exhibition: The Film Library's Circulating Programs Chapter 6: Enduring Legacies Appendix: Film Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, 1934--1949 Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.6.2005
Zusatzinfo	20 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-520-24131-2 / 0520241312
ISBN-13	978-0-520-24131-2 / 9780520241312
Zustand	Neuware