Patronizing the public [electronic resource] : American philanthropy's transformation of culture, communication, and the humanities / edited by William J. Buxton
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TextSeries: Critical media studiesPublication details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009Description: 1 online resource (x, 351 p.) : illISBN: - 9780739138366 (electronic bk.)
- 0739138367 (electronic bk.)
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"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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Mode of access : Internet