| Description |
1 online resource (x, 406 pages) |
| Note |
"An Ahmanson foundation book in the humanities"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia University's early classes on Photoplay Composition; lectures at the New School for Social Research by famed movie historian Terry Ramsaye; the film industry's sponsorship of a business course on film at Harvard; and attempts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create programs of professionalized education at the University of Southern California, Stanford, and elsewhere. Polan examines a wide range of thinkers who engaged with the new art of film, from Marxist Harry Alan Potamkin to sociologist Frederic Thrasher to Great Books advocates Mortimer Adler and Mark Van Doren. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Motion pictures -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01027392
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Polan, Dana B., 1953- Scenes of instruction. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520249622 0520249623 (DLC) 2006025495 (OCoLC)70839788 |
| ISBN |
9780520940208 (electronic bk.) |
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0520940202 (electronic bk.) |
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9781429467926 (electronic bk.) |
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1429467924 (electronic bk.) |
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