Inventing Film Studies

by Grieveson, Lee; Wasson, Haidee

• ISBN13: 9780822342892
• ISBN10: 0822342898
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This collection contributes new understandings to the history of film studies, particularly regarding the discipline's development in the humanities and its gradual abandonment of the methodological practices of the social sciences, in which it had its origins." Inventing Film Studies" will be welcomed by academics working in cinema studies, and it will provide new entrants to the field with an important introduction to the history of their study."--Richard Maltby, author of "Hollywood Cinema"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

The Academy and Motion Pictures

Making Cinema Knowable

Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct

Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert

"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film

Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film

Making Cinema Educational

Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object

Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957

Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America

From Cinephilia to Film Studies

Making Cinema Legible

Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s

Screen and 1970s Film Theory

Little Books

Making and Remaking Cinema Studies

Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education

Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory

Appendix

Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies

Selected Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

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