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Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American
Peter Decherney
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Hardback. 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. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their place in mainstream society, and expand their new but tenuous hold on American popular culture. Peter Decherney explores how these needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture. Formed during Hollywood's Golden Age (1915-1960), this unlikely partnership ultimately insured prominent places in American ... Read more
As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their place in mainstream society, and expand their new but tenuous hold on American popular culture. Peter Decherney explores how these needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture. Formed during Hollywood's Golden Age (1915-1960), this unlikely partnership ultimately insured prominent places in American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231133760
SKU
V9780231133760
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About Peter Decherney
Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American
It is in the author's discussion of these Cold War happenings that the narrative becomes almost cloak-and-dagger. Publishers Weekly A clearly written and well-researched historical work that makes a strong contribution to film scholarship.
Heidi Kenaga The Moving Image A frequently profound ethical query into the costs of patronage.
Kevin Hagopian Film Quarterly Thought-provoking. The American Historical Review ... Read more
Heidi Kenaga The Moving Image A frequently profound ethical query into the costs of patronage.
Kevin Hagopian Film Quarterly Thought-provoking. The American Historical Review ... Read more