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Author Pells, Richard H.

Title Modernist America [electronic resource] : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / Richard Pells.

Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.

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Description xiii, 498 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Modernism in Europe and America -- Painting modernity -- The globalization of American architecture -- Modernism in the marketplace -- From The rite of spring to Appalachian spring -- All that jazz -- They're writing songs of love -- "I was just making pictures" : from Charlie Chaplin to Charlie Kane -- Night and fog : from German expressionism to film noir -- The new wave abroad -- The new wave at home -- A method they couldn't refuse -- The global popularity of American movies -- Epilogue. The modernism of American culture.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Arts and globalization -- United States.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture
ISBN 9780300115048 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300171730 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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