LEADER 05149nam 2200721 450 001 9910812277603321 005 20210422012023.0 010 $a0-231-53714-X 024 7 $a10.7312/sitt16578 035 $a(CKB)2560000000141421 035 $a(EBL)1603548 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001195703 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12395885 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195703 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11161913 035 $a(PQKB)11116627 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000744866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1603548 035 $a(DE-B1597)458506 035 $a(OCoLC)979573934 035 $a(OCoLC)984687682 035 $a(OCoLC)987934067 035 $a(OCoLC)992545088 035 $a(OCoLC)999378303 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537148 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1603548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10956759 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL668707 035 $a(OCoLC)872553976 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000141421 100 $a20141028h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLady in the dark $eIris Barry and the art of film /$fRobert Sitton 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (870 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-322-37425-2 311 0 $a0-231-16578-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tList of Illustrations --$tTo IRIS BARRY (1895-1969) /$rCooke, Alistair --$tCredits --$tPreviews --$t1. EARLY YEARS --$t2. "WE ENJOYED THE WAR" --$t3. "DEAR MISS BARRY" --$t4. THE OTHER BLOOMSBURY --$t5. LIFE WITH LEWIS --$t6. CHILDREN --$t7. ALAN PORTER --$t8. The Spectator --$t9. SPLASHING INTO FILM SOCIETY --$t10. CINEMA PARAGONS, HOLLYWOOD, And LADY MARY --$t11 .Let's Go to the Pictures --$t12. Victory and Defeat --$t13. America --$t14. The Askew Salon --$t15. Museum Men --$t16. Remarriage --$t17. Settling In --$t18. Cracking Hollywood --$t19. Art High and Low --$t20. On to Europe --$t21. Going Public --$t22. The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr --$t23. Meanwhile, Back at the Library --$t24. New Work, Old Acquaintances --$t25. "The Master" and His Minions --$t26. Temora Farm --$t27. The Museum Enlists --$t28. Mr. Rockefeller's Office --$t29. L'Affair Buñuel --$t30. The Other Library --$t31. Divorce --$t32. Postwar Blues --$t33. Abbott's Fall --$t34. Hospital --$t35. Departure --$t36. La Bonne Font --$t37. Things Past --$t38. The Austin House --$t39. Readjustments --$t40. New York And London --$t41. Final Breaks --$t42. The End --$tSequel --$tNotes --$tSources --$tIndex 330 $aIris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the Isle of Man. An aspiring poet, Barry attracted the attention of Ezra Pound and joined a demimonde of Bloomsbury figures, including Ford Maddox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Waley, Edith Sitwell, and William Butler Yeats. She fell in love with Pound's eccentric fellow Vorticist, Wyndham Lewis, and had two children by him. In London, Barry pursued a career as a novelist, biographer, and critic of motion pictures. In America, she joined the modernist Askew Salon, where she met Alfred Barr, director of the new Museum of Modern Art. There she founded the museum's film department and became its first curator, assuring film's critical legitimacy. She convinced powerful Hollywood figures to submit their work for exhibition, creating a new respect for film and prompting the founding of the International Federation of Film Archives. Barry continued to augment MoMA's film library until World War II, when she joined the Office of Strategic Services to develop pro-American films with Orson Welles, Walt Disney, John Huston, and Frank Capra. Yet despite her patriotic efforts, Barry's "foreignness" and association with such filmmakers as Luis Buñuel made her the target of an anticommunist witch hunt. She eventually left for France and died in obscurity. Drawing on letters, memorabilia, and other documentary sources, Robert Sitton reconstructs Barry's phenomenal life and work while recasting the political involvement of artistic institutions in the twentieth century. 606 $aArchivists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aFilm critics$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aMotion picture film$xPreservation$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMotion picture film collections$zUnited States$xArchival resources 615 0$aArchivists 615 0$aFilm critics 615 0$aMotion picture film$xPreservation$xHistory. 615 0$aMotion picture film collections$xArchival resources. 676 $a791.43092 700 $aSitton$b Robert$01627756 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812277603321 996 $aLady in the dark$93964492 997 $aUNINA