Scenes of instruction : the beginnings of the U.S. study of film /

Main Author: Polan, Dana B., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: toward a disciplinary history of film studies
  • First forays in film education
  • A brief interlude as the movies march on
  • "Younger art, old college, happy union"
  • Between academia and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  • Politics as pedagogy, pedagogy as politics
  • Appreciations of cinema
  • Cinematic diversions in sociology
  • Middlebrow translations of highbrow philosophy.