Hollywood and the Culture Elite provides a major contribution to our understanding of the role of movies in American culture. Carefully researched and engagingly written, it uncovers, for the first time, the many links between movie moguls and the leaders of American cultural institutions that have made Hollywood essential to the definition and circulation of American identity. This is required reading for anyone interested in the history of American film."
-Douglas Gomery, University of Maryland
"In this original, deeply researched, clearly written, and utterly fascinating book, Peter Decherney has illuminated the complex and often unexpected connections between Hollywood films and the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard, and Columbia. The book not only enriches our understanding of the place of Hollywood in American culture, but it also informs us about the roles some of our most elite cultural institutions played in the history of film as a form of popular art and as a high art form. It is an outstanding and invaluable work of cultural history."
Introduction: How Film Became Art
1. Vachel Lindsay and the Universal Film Collection
2. Overlapping Publics: Hollywood and Columbia University, 1915
3. Mandarins and Marxists: Harvard and the Rise of Film Experts
4. Iris Barry, Hollywood Imperialism, and the Gender of the Nation
5. The Museum of Modern Art and the Roots of the Cultural Cold War
6. The Politics of Patronage: How the NEA (Accidentally) Created American Avant-Garde Film
Conclusion: The End of the Studio System
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