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.
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Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description1 online resource (x, 406 p.)
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 377-400) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Scenes of instruction Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520249622 (cloth : alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021696935
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