Museum Movies : The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema / Haidee Wasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasson, Haidee, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Making Cinema a Modern Art

2 Mannered Cinema/ Mobile Theaters. Film Exhibition, 16mm, and the New Audience Ideal

3 The Mass Museology of the Modern

4 An Awkward and Dangerous Task. The Film Library Takes Shape

5 Rearguard Exhibition. The Film Librarys Circulating Programs

6 Enduring Legacies

Appendix: Film Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, 19341949

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-42089-6

OCLC:

733997261