Museum movies: the Museum of Modern Art and the birth of art cinema

Abstract

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