"This collection had its origins in a workshop titled "American philanthropic support for culture, communications, and the humanities" that was held at the Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, New York) from August 19 to August 20, 2004"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Society and its discontents : bringing culture, communication, and the humanities into the history of philanthropy / William J. Buxton -- From the Rockefeller Center to the Lincoln Center : musings on the "Rockefeller half-century" / William J. Buxton -- Transformation and continuity in Rockefeller child-related programs : implications for the emergence of communications as a field of concern / Theresa Richardson -- Communication practice and theory in the "new humanities" and "new general-education" programs of Rockefeller philanthropy, 1933-1940 / William J. Buxton -- The Rockefeller Foundation and Pan-American radio / Gisela Cramer -- Hollywood by-pass : MoMA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and new circuits of cinema / Haidee Wasson -- An "art of fugue" of film scoring : Hanns Eisler's Rockefeller Foundation-funded film music project (1940-1942) / Johannes C. Gall -- "Sugar-coating the educational pill" : Rockefeller support for the communicative turn in science museums / Manon Niquette and William J. Buxton -- The political economy of Rockefeller support for the humanities in Canada, 1941-1957 / Jeffrey Brison -- Inadvertent architects of twentieth-century media convergence : private foundations and the reorientation of foreign journalists / Marion Wrenn -- Screen technology, mobilization, and adult education in the 1950s / Charles R. Acland -- The television activities of the fund for the republic / Anna McCarthy -- "The weakest point in our record" : philanthropic support of dance and the arts / Julia L. Foulkes.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.