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

Dana B. Polan c2007 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520249622 (hardcover)
  • 9780520940208 (ebook)
  • 9780520249639 (paper)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction: Toward a Disciplinary History of Film Studies (page 1)
  • 1. First Forays in Film Education: The Pedagogy of Photoplay Composition at Columbia University (page 33)
  • 2. A Brief Interlude as the Movies March On: Terry Ramsaye and the New School for Social Research (page 90)
  • 3. "Younger Art, Old College, Happy Union": Harvard Goes into the Business and Art of the Movies (page 113)
  • 4. Between Academia and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: The University of Southern California Ventures into the Cinema (page 175)
  • 5. Politics as Pedagogy, Pedagogy as Politics: The Rather Brief Moment in Time of Harry Alan Potamkin (page 236)
  • 6. Appreciations of Cinema: Syracuse Discovers Film Art (page 263)
  • 7. Cinematic Diversions in Sociology: Frederic Thrasher in the World of Film Appreciation (page 299)
  • 8. Middlebrow Translations of Highbrow Philosophy: The Film Fandom of the 1930s Great Books Intellectuals (page 344)
  • Notes (page 377)
  • Index (page 401)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MI 8.2 (Fall 2008): 90-92 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/v008/8.2.guest.html
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