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Can I read Hollywood and the Culture Elite : How the Movies Became American on EtoBox?
Hollywood and the Culture Elite : How the Movies Became American by Peter Decherney is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hollywood and the Culture Elite : How the Movies Became American about?
As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their place in mainstream society, and expand their new but tenuous hold on American popular culture. Peter Decherney explores how these needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relations
Who reads Hollywood and the Culture Elite : How the Movies Became American?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Peter Decherney
- Publisher
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231508513
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- History, Business, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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