Title: Museum movies : the Museum of Modern Art and the birth of art cinema /
Authors: Wasson, Haidee, 1970-
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). History.; Motion pictures Preservation United States.; Motion pictures United States History; Motion picture film Preservation United States.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Making cinema a modern art -- Mannered cinema/mobile theaters: film exhibition, 16mm, 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.