Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American
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