Modernist America [electronic resource] : art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / Richard Pells.
Publication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.Description: xiii, 498 pISBN:- 9780300115048 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780300171730 (e-book)
- Art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture
- 700.973/0904 22
- NX180.G56 P45 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.