Scenes of instruction the beginnings of the U.S. study of film / Dana Polan.
| Author/creator | Polan, Dana B., 1953- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | "An Ahmanson foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-400) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Scenes of instruction Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520249622 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696935 |
| ISBN | 9780520940208 ebook |
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