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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pells, Richard H.
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Arts and globalization > United States.
Arts, American > 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiii, 498 pages
Variant Title:
Art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture.
Format: Book
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.