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modern audience for art cinema by employing overt disciplinary strategies. The staff of the Film
Library, and sometimes Barry herself, carefully monitored the spectator's behavior in the cinematic salon, sanctioning improper conduct (e.g. rowdiness, excessive chatter or laughter during screening etc.) by, at times, even terminating the film screening altogether. These strategies, Wasson argues, sought to mold a new form of cinematic audience by instilling the values of "educated film viewing and studious attention".
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and Iris Barry's continuous struggle to affirm the cultural status and value of cinema to powerful museum benefactors and to win over
Hollywood film studios' support in order to elevate cinema's status to that of a unique American art form. Wasson elaborates on MoMA's Film Library's effort to create
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The cinema studies scholar Haidee Wasson argues that under Barry's direction the MoMA's Film
Library, the first American institution of film art, created the cultural and intellectual climate that allowed "selected films to become visible to an emergent public under the rubrics of art and history,"
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and attended “Ezuversity,” that is, Ezra Pound’s programme through which he educated young male and female poets on the art of reading and writing. In the letters Pound wrote to her, among many other things, he encouraged her to emancipate herself, to avoid marriage and to do something no other
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served as a "promulgator of discourses about cultural value and productive leisure," and consequently defined "what objects and media matter within the politics of cultural value and visual knowledge". Wasson further details MoMA's director's
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