Wasson, Haidee,   1970-  <br/><br/>
Museum movies :  the Museum of Modern Art and the birth of art cinema / 
Haidee Wasson. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2005. 
 - xiii, 314 pages :   illustrations ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographic references and index 
<br/><br/>Making Cinema a Modern Art -- Mannered Cinema / Mobile Theaters: film exhibition, 16 mm, 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 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520227778 (alk. paper)  9780520227774  0520241312 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520241312  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004024026 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Film Library --History.<br/>Museo de Arte Moderno (Nueva York, Estados Unidos)  Filmoteca  --Historia
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Preservation--United States.<br/>Motion pictures--History.--United States<br/>Películas --Preservación --Estados Unidos<br/>Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1993.4  / W323m 2005