Inventing Film Studies

Herausgeber: Grieveson, Lee

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of institution-centered essays comprising a history of film studies as a discipline.

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Offers insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. This volume provides examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. It also considers the future directions of film study in a changing technological and cultural environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343073
• ISBN-10: 082234307X
• Artikelnr.: 23880219

Autorenporträt

Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson xi
Making Cinema Knowable
Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson 3
Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media
Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson 38
"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the
Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick 66
Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film /
Dana Polan 93
Making Cinema Educational
Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's
Changing Object / Haidee Wasson 121
Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film
Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland 149
Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael
Zryd 182
From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 217
Making Cinema Legible
Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s
/ Haden Guest 235
Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen 264
(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelia Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia
White, and Sharon Willis 298
Little Books / Mark Betz 319
Making and Remaking Cinema Studies
Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope
353
Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory /
D. N. Rodowick 374
Appendix
Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies /
Stephen Groening 399
Selected Bibliography 419
About the Contributors 425
Index 429