TY - BOOK AU - Wasson,Haidee TI - Museum movies: the Museum of Modern Art and the birth of art cinema SN - 0520227778 (alk. paper) AV - PN 1993.4 W323m 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) KW - Film Library KW - History KW - Museo de Arte Moderno (Nueva York, Estados Unidos) KW - Filmoteca KW - Historia KW - Motion pictures KW - Preservation KW - United States KW - Películas KW - Preservación KW - Estados Unidos KW - Cine N1 - Includes bibliographic references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024026.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2004024026-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2004024026-b.html ER -