Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American (Film and Culture Series)

by PeterDecherney (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2006

  $31.12

  Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity. This book explores how their needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture.