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  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 culture for both the movie
industry and elite cultural institutions. It redefined Hollywood as an ideal American industry; it made movies an art
form instead of simply entertainment for the masses; and it made moviegoing a vital civic institution. For their part,
museums and universities used films to maintain their position as quintessential American institutions. As the book
delves into the ties between Hollywood bigwigs and various cultural leaders, an intriguing cast of characters emerges,
including the poet Vachel Lindsay, film producers Adolph Zukor and Joseph Kennedy, Hollywood flak and censor
extraordinaire Will Hays, and philanthropist turned politician Nelson Rockefeller. Decherney considers how Columbia
University's film studies program helped integrate Jewish students into American culture while also professionalizing
screenwriting. He examines MoMA's career-savvy film curator Iris Barry, a British feminist once dedicated to stemming
the tide of U.S. cultural imperialism, who ultimately worked with Hollywood and the U.S. government to fight fascism and
communism and promote American values abroad. Other chapters explore Vachel Lindsay's progressive vision of movies as
reinvigorating the public sphere through film libraries and museums; the promotion of movie connoisseurship at Harvard
and other universities; and how the heir of a railroad magnate bankrolled the American avant-garde film movement. Amid
ethnic diversity, the rise of mass entertainment, world war, and the global spread of American culture, Hollywood and
cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though
shifting, American identity.
  
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  Review
  It is in the author's
discussion of these Cold War happenings that the narrative becomes almost cloak-and-dagger. Publishers Weekly 5/2/05 A
clearly written and well-researched historical work that makes a strong contribution to film scholarship. -- Heidi
Kenaga The Moving Image Fall 2006 A frequently profound ethical query into the costs of patronage. -- Kevin Hagopian
Film Quarterly Summer 2007 Thought-provoking. The American Historical Review Vol 112 Issue 3 Decherney does an excellent
job exploring the individual players... and exposing how our current cinematic institutions and assumptions regarding
film were founded. -- Erin Hills-Parks Film & History Vol 37:1 A very significant work that demands attentive and
critical engagement. -- Tom Crosbie Screening the Past Issue 21
  
  About the Author
  Peter
Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. 
  
 
Publisher: Columbia University Press (3 May 2005)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10:
0231133766
  ISBN-13: 978-0231133760
  
  Most Helpful Customer
Reviews
  
  A Must for "Film Buffs" 10 November 2005
  By "M" - 
  This book,
HOLLYWOOD and THE CULTURE ELITE explores a most intriguing portion of the role of movies/ Hollywood during the early to
mid 20th century. It is a factual, clearly written easy read for those of us intersted in the topic,but not necessarily
a student of film history.
  
  Peter Decherney, the author, deftly explains the impact,both positive and
negative, that well-known institutions have on one another, and makes us understand that no one person nor industry nor
group can thrive, let alone exist, without the others.
  The reader will learn many levels of information ranging
from facts to amusing anecdotes to fascinating character portraits.
  
  This book is well worth every minute
you spend reading it! 
  
  
   						

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