Patronizing the public American philanthropy's transformation of culture, communication, and the humanities /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Buxton, William, 1947-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Series:Critical media studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.