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Museum Movies
Haidee Wasson
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Paperback. Num Pages: 327 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 556.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520241312
SKU
V9780520241312
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About Haidee Wasson
Haidee Wasson is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Concordia University, Montreal.
Reviews for Museum Movies
"Impeccably researched, lucidly argued, Haidee Wasson's book reveals MoMA's significant role in transforming film culture during the interwar years. Producing the first systematic study of the museum's relationship to cinema, she not only contributes original work to the field, but signals new directions in film historiography. This is a full-scale exploration of the rise of film as art and a ... Read more