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

著者

Dana Polan

University of California Press, c2007

"this book provided by Ahmanson foundation humanities endowment fund of the university of california press foundation"--P. [4] of cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-400) and index

First forays in film education : the pedagogy of photoplay composition at Columbia University
A brief interlude as the movies march on : Terry Ramsaye and the New School for Social Research
"Younger art, old college, happy union" : Harvard goes into the business and art of the movies
Between academia and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences : the University of Southern California ventures into the cinema
Politics as pedagogy, pedagogy as politics : the rather brief moment in time of Harry Alan Potamkin
Appreciations of cinema : Syracuse discovers film art
Cinematic diversions in sociology : Frederic Thrasher in the world of film appreciation
Middlebrow translations of highbrow philosophy : the film Fandom of the 1930s Great Books intellectuals