Iris Barry

Iris Barry

Iris Barry (1895 - 1969) was the founder of the film department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1935. Barry was a film critic, and an early proponent of relating cinema to sociology, mythology, and genre.

She was born and educated in the United Kingdom where she became one of the first female film critics. From 1923 to 1930, she wrote for "The Spectator", and was film editor for the "Daily Mail" from 1926 to 1930. Barry wrote a popular book on moviegoing "Let's Go to the Pictures" (1926).

She is probably best remembered as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, which had opened in 1929. After coming to the United States in 1935, she founded the film study department, with an archival collection of rare films, library of film-related books, and a film circulation program.

Iris Barry also wrote the scholarly classic "D. W. Griffith: American Film Master" and became a regular book reviewer for the "New York Herald Tribune".

External links

* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/criticism/criticism3.html Iris Barry at British Film Institute website]


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