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Museum movies : the Museum of Modern Art and the birth of art cinema / Haidee Wasson.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.Description: xiii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520227778 (alk. paper)
  • 9780520227774
  • 0520241312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520241312
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.4 W323m 2005
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Contents:
Making Cinema a Modern Art -- Mannered Cinema / Mobile Theaters: film exhibition, 16 mm, and the new audience ideal -- The Mass Museology of the Modern -- An Awkward and Dangerous Task: the film library takes shape -- Rearguard Exhibition: the film library's circulating programs -- Enduring Legacies
Summary: In 1935, the foundation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York marked the transformation of the film medium from a passing amusement to an enduring art form. Haidee Wasson maps the work of the MoMA film library as it pioneered the preservation of film & promoted the concept of art cinema
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.4 W323m 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000096446

Includes bibliographic references and index

Making Cinema a Modern Art -- Mannered Cinema / Mobile Theaters: film exhibition, 16 mm, and the new audience ideal -- The Mass Museology of the Modern -- An Awkward and Dangerous Task: the film library takes shape -- Rearguard Exhibition: the film library's circulating programs -- Enduring Legacies

In 1935, the foundation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York marked the transformation of the film medium from a passing amusement to an enduring art form. Haidee Wasson maps the work of the MoMA film library as it pioneered the preservation of film & promoted the concept of art cinema

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