Patronizing the public
Subtitle: American philanthropy's transformation of culture, communication, and the humanities
By: edited by William J. Buxton.
Contributors: Buxton, William, 1947-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780739123058; 9780739123065; 9780739138366
Subjects: Rockefeller Foundation -- History; Charities -- United States -- History; Cultural industries -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Society and its discontents : bringing communication, culture, and the humanities into the history of philanthropy / William J. Buxton; title: From the Rockefeller Center to the Lincoln Center : musings on the "Rockefeller half-century" / William J. Buxton; title: Transformation and continuity in Rockefeller child-related programs : implications for the emergence of communications as a field of concern / Theresa Richardson; title: Communication in the "new humanities" and "new general-education" programs of Rockefeller philanthropy, 1933-1940 / William J. Buxton; title: The Rockefeller Foundation and Pan-American radio / Gisela Cramer; title: Hollywood by-pass : MoMA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and new circuits of cinema / Haidee Wasson; title: An "art of film scoring" : Hanns Eisler's Rockefeller Foundation-funded film music project (1940-1942) / Johannes Gall; title: "Sugar-coating the educational pill" : Rockefeller support for the communicative turn in science museums / Manon Niquette and William J. Buxton; title: The political economy of Rockefeller support for the humanities in Canada, 1941-1957 / Jeffrey Brison; title: Inadvertent architects of 20th century media convergence : private foundations and the reorientation of foreign journalists / Marion Wrenn; title: Screen technology, mobilization, and adult education in the 1950's / Charles R. Acland; title: The television activities of the fund for the republic / Anna McCarthy; title: "The weakest point in our record" : philanthropic support of dance and the arts / Julia L. Foulkes.