Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema

by Haidee Wasson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520241312
• ISBN13: 9780520241312
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"