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Author:

Pells, Richard H.

Title:

Modernist America : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / Richard Pells.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 498 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Arts and globalization--United States.
Arts, American--20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0300115040 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300115048 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)150348398

LCCN:

2010029944

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)