Haidee Wasson 
Museum Movies [PDF ebook] 
The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema

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 (Mo MA), 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, Mo MA 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. Like books, paintings, and photographs, films became discrete objects, integral to thinking about art, history, and the politics of modern life.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments


Chapter 1: Making Cinema a Modern Art

Chapter 2: Mannered Cinema/Mobile Theaters: Film Exhibition, 16mm, and the New Audience Ideal

Chapter 3: The Mass Museology of the Modern

Chapter 4: An Awkward and Dangerous Task: The Film Library Takes Shape

Chapter 5: Rearguard Exhibition: The Film Library’s Circulating Programs

Chapter 6: Enduring Legacies

Appendix: Film Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, 1934–1949


Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor

Haidee Wasson is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Concordia University, Montreal.